SILVER CIRCUS: Tales by A. E. Coppard.
London: Jonathan Cape, (1928). First trade edition. Hardcover. 288 pp., octavo, black cloth spine and silver boards, printed paper spine label, jacket. Some foxing, acidic paper burn to verso of last page, else about fine in lightly edgeworn near fine jacket. Item #23003
SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON HALF TITLE PAGE. Coppard's ninth book, containing the short stories Silver Circus; Darby Dallow Tells His Tale; That Fellow Tolstoy!; Rifke; The Ape and the Ass; The Martyrdom of Solomon; Fine Feathers; The Almanac Man; A Looking-Glass for Saint Luke; The Birthday Party; The Third Prize; The Presser; Adolf Plumflower; Purl and Plain; Faithless Phoebe; and Polly Morgan. From the library of John K. Martin (of Black Sparrow Press) with his small exlibris label to rear pastedown.
Price: $75.00