The King of Alsander; Collected Prose; Collected Poems; Hassan: The Story of Hassan of Bagdad.. (4 volumes as a set)

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Flecker, James Elroy.. The King of Alsander; Collected Prose; Collected Poems; Hassan: The Story of Hassan of Bagdad.. (4 volumes as a set). London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1914. Mixed Editions. Full Niger Morocco. Near Fine. pp. xii, 304, 1914 1st edition; viii, 269, 1920 1st edition; xxxi, 249, 1923 8th imp.; (v), 183, 1926 11th imp. A.e.g. Uniformly bound by Mudie in different coloured skins with Flecker’s name on front boards surrounded by crossed garlands of leaves in gilt. Spines ruled at heads & tails with four hatched lines (all in gilt) on those edges & divided into six panels with title & author in gilt in the second. All other panels gilt stamped with either a flower or, in the novel’s case, a crown motif in each. Board edges have a gilt pin point decorative roll. Turn-ins have single line fillets at outer edge & french fillets at their inner edge comprised of, working outwards; a single, pin point & scalloped lines with a flower at head & tail fore corners. The binder’s signature stamp is in gilt at the tail of front paste-down end papers. All the books have an inscription dated January 1924 to Agnes Brita Lingen Gurney (a suffragette) who probably knew Flecker but certainly did his mother; we have a card to her (not for sale here) from Mrs Flecker dated May 1924 re. proof reading ‘The Life of James Elroy Flecker: from Letters & Materials Provided by His Mother’ requesting Ms Gurney’s help locating in his work the epigraph for that book: “For thee, O Architect of Dream”