John Masefield - The Everlasting Mercy - First Edition

MASEFIELD, John (1878-1967).

The Everlasting Mercy.

London: Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd., 1911.

FIRST EDITION, first printing. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[8]; 89; [3]; [4 of publisher's ads]. Publisher's blue cloth, titles in gilt to spine and upper. Dust-jacket with printed price of 3/6 net to spine.

Offset toning to endpapers, edges toned and darkened to top edge. Binding is fine. Dust-jacket shows well, darkened to spine with some splits and tears, reinforced at some point with sellotape to reverse. Rare in the dust-jacket. Near fine.

The future Poet Laureate's first narrative poem.