GOLDEN TWIGS

First collected edition. Publisher's original green cloth decorated in gilt to the upper board, titles in gilt to the spine, in the J. M MespLé illustrated dustwrapper. Photographic portrait frontispiece. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth bright and fresh. The contents with a couple of faint spots to the endpapers are otherwise clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the lightly rubbed and nicked dustwrapper that has a short closed tear to the bottom edge of the upper panel.

A collection of eight stories, six of which were original published pseudonymously in The International: A Review of Two Worlds between October 1917 and April 1918. Comprising 'The King of the Wood', 'The Stone of Cybele', The Oracle of the Corycian Cave', 'The Burning of Melcarth', 'The Hearth', 'The Old Man of the Peepul-Tree', 'The Mass of Saint Sécaire' and 'The God of Ibreez'. With an introduction and notes by Martin P. Starr.