LE GALLIENNE, Richard.
The Book-Bills of Narcissus: An Account Rendered by Richard Le Gallienne.
The first Lane edition after two Frank Murray editions, both printed in very small numbers. This first Lane edition, which marks Le Gallienne’s arrival as a mainstream writer, adds a frontispiece (of Narcissus, but looking just a little like Le Gallienne himself) and an extra chapter
An important presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the initial blank: “Frank Murray / to whom this little book / owed its first welcome into / the world / from / Richard Le Gallienne.“
With Murray’s bookplate and the later one of the American diplomat and novelist Paul Hyde Bonner, who in a slightly insensitive bit of appropriation has simply glued his on top of Murray’s. An unusually good copy of this fragile issue, with some slight staining to the boards and darkening to the spine.
