Description
Hodgson, Geraldine. The Life of James Elroy Flecker: From Letters and Materials Provided by His Mother. London: Basil Blackwell, 1925. First Edition. White Buckram . Very Good. pp. 232, 285-8 (index) a.e.g. ; pp. 233-284. A single work bound in two separate volumes. The second being The Epilogue: The Development of Flecker’s Art. This unusual state is perhaps explained by the accompanying handwritten card from Flecker’s mother to Agnes Brita Lingen Gurney dated May 1924: ” I am hard at work going over The Life & Letters which came to me a week ago – before its final despatch for publication… Can you tell me the page to find the following words of Roy’s ‘For thee, O Architect of Dream!’.” The quotation is actually used in this slightly altered form as the book’s opening epigraph. Flecker was known to his family as Roy. Also laid in at the point in the Life describing Flecker’s honeymoon is an original photograph on the reverse of which in pencil is written “Corfu”; the C has a distinctive initial curl detectable in Flecker’s hand. An excellent & intriguing association copy.
