Decadent verse, strong on the pierrot motif, and with a poem in memory of Beardsley. Underwood was an American civil servant, gay, and a friend and confidant of Hart Crane notably as the recipient of Crane’s boasting letters about his love life, including one account which ends with the memorable “Europa and the Bull are now entirely passé”. Nelson, EM, 1906.24. Some creasing to front cover. A fine copy of a fairly rare book, especially in this condition.
