The King of Alsander. by FLECKER, James Elroy - 1914T

George Allen & Unwin, 1926. Book. Poor. Hardcover. 2nd Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 1926 h/b reprint of 1915's new edition. Underneath the aged and barely hanging on jacket the covers are quite clean tho' worn at the bottom and corners. Binding is good. Foxing throughout. Acceptable only. Posting from UK within 1 business day of order receipt to UK only..

MP3 Audio CD. The King of Alsander (Dramatic Reading) CHAPTER I BLAINDON Would that I had a little cot Beside a little hill, In some romantic English spot Where summer's not so very hot And winter not too chill. J. Williams The writer of these simple lines, now unhappily dead, was a man of the soil, whose sweet native note had never been troubled by the sinister depravities, the heartless affectations of urban existence; and I believe myself that his pathetic and modest ideal could have been actually realized had he inhabited, as perhaps he did, the peaceful village of Blaindon. This secluded hamlet lies some ten miles from the sea, in an undulating, but not terrible, country—a land of woodland and meadow, of buttercup and daisy, of tiny streams and verdant dells. At evening the scene is more tranquil than ever, and the old church spire, standing sentinel above the cold ploughlands, presents a curiously sad appearance, tinged as it is with the melancholy of years. However at the time when… Read More

MP3 Audio CD. The King of Alsander (Dramatic Reading) CHAPTER I BLAINDON Would that I had a little cot Beside a little hill, In some romantic English spot Where summer's not so very hot And winter not too chill. J. Williams The writer of these simple lines, now unhappily dead, was a man of the soil, whose sweet native note had never been troubled by the sinister depravities, the heartless affectations of urban existence; and I believe myself that his pathetic and modest ideal could have been actually realized had he inhabited, as perhaps he did, the peaceful village of Blaindon. This secluded hamlet lies some ten miles from the sea, in an undulating, but not terrible, country—a land of woodland and meadow, of buttercup and daisy, of tiny streams and verdant dells. At evening the scene is more tranquil than ever, and the old church spire, standing sentinel above the cold ploughlands, presents a curiously sad appearance, tinged as it is with the melancholy of years. However at the time when… Read More

New York: Knopf, 1926. Later printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 1926, later printing, 286 pp. Hardcover, orange cloth spine with decorative paper over boards. Very Good copy. Light spine wear; previous owner's small bookplate on the front pastedown; clean and unmarked text.

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Allen & Unwin, London, 1926. 1926. 8vo. Hardcover. 286pp. Very good, foxing to endpapers and outer edges, fair, chipped, torn, d/w. .