4to (8 3/8 x 6 1/2 in.; 213 x 165mm).  Frontispiece and head- and tailpiece printed in color after watercolors by Lawrence, title-page printed in red and black.  Publisher's heavy paper covers with folded flaps enclosed in glassine dust-wrappers; glassine torn away at upper half of spine, resiulting in some light browning to spine.  Marbled slipcase; worn.

H. Bradley Martin (bookplate, his sale in our New York rooms, 1 May 1990, lot 2997)

Minkoff A-27; Roberts A50b

Condition as described in catalogue entry.
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First edition, copy 30 of 50 copies on Japanese vellum, signed and numbered by Lawrenceon the half-title.  The whole edition of 500 comprises 450 copies on Van Gelder and 50 on Japanese vellum.

The is the first appearance of the story🔯 later known as "The Man Who Died".