NOYES, Alfred

Tales of the Mermaid Tavern

Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood & Sons, 1913. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original green cloth, gilt-lettered, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Spine darkened, light soiling, but a very good copy. Item #409577

Inscribed with four lines of verse from the poem "A Coiner of Angels" (on p. 38 in the book): "From 'The Little Red Ring' / What will you say when the world is dying, / What, when the last wild midnight falls / Dark, too dark for the bat to be flying / Round the ruins of old St. Paul's? / Alfred Noyes / Oct. 23rd '48."

Price: $100.00