(PEAR TREE PRESS) Bottomley Gordon The Riding to Lithend

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(PEAR TREE PRESS.) Bottomley, Gordon. The Riding to Lithend. Signed uncolored frontispiece, 5 hand-colored illustrations, half-title, and title-page, by James Guthrie. Thin 8vo, linen-backed blue boards with title label, embellished by Guthrie, boards faded along edges; light foxing to lower margins; ink corrections on pages 36-37. ex-collection bottomley, with his book label and that of guthrie signed by the latter, in pencil. Flansham, Sussex: 1909

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author's copy with hand-corrections in text, book label, signed frontispiece and final leaf. First edition of this one-act play set in Iceland, with a printed dedication poem by Bottomley to his close friend the poet Edward Thomas. There is no stated limitation; however, Eckert, (in his bibliography of Edward Thomas), records the edition consisted of one hundred ordinary copies, and twenty with the illustrations hand colored. Not in Tomkinson or Ridler. Cited by Ransom, but without information concerning limitation.