THE MOON ENDURETH : TALES AND FANCIES.

Edinburgh & London : William Blackwood & Sons, 1912. First edition. A collection of ten short stories, including "The Company of the Marjolaine", "The Lemnian", "The Grove of Ashtaroth", "The Kings of Orion", etc., interspersed with accompanying poems - "Few writers have Mr. Buchan's ability for expressing through the medium of the short story the dramatic, or poetic, significance of so wide a range of subjects ... the psychology of heredity, in Jacobite romance, in fishing, in mountaineering ... In 'A Lucid Interval' ... we are told how a deadly, mysterious Indian drug administered to the members of a Liberal Cabinet creates the greatest confusion ... The satire of this is delightful ... a welcome addition to the shelves of all who appreciate the literary side of fiction" (The Globe, 24th May 1912). Crown 8vo (20cm). [2],xiv,324,(4) + 64pp inserted advertisements dated December 1911. Original grey cloth, lettered in gilt and decorated in silver; some very minor wear; endpapers a little tanned, but a very good copy. Contemporary (1912) gift inscription to Ethel A. Short from the Anglophile Gustave Monod M.D. (1878-1932), "a wise physician and a kind friend" to the many British visitors to the spa-town of Vichy, popular to the extent that he was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in London in 1931.