Description: Published by Pascal Covici, Illustrated by Earl H. Reed, authored by J.U. Nicolson. The First Edition consists of 1100 copies, the first 160 were signed and marketed in a slipcase, the remaining copies were printed on Regal antique India paper. This is a copy from the latter printings - not signed. Red boards with edge and corner wear, a few soil marks, black tape on spine likely repairing a spine that had eroded (a piece of the spine found inside front board). 117 clean and solidly bound pages; pages have waviness but not (I believe) from moisture since there are no stains and the waviness is somewhat uniform on the pages. The title page has a small tear, none others. A SPECIAL BOOK OF POETRY WITH ILLUSTRATIONS. From an online review from 1925: "When the poet approaches the territory of the mediaeval, there is apt to be a plenitude of rigorous phrases and pungent words, seldom used expressions and strange spellings. The love of the picturesque is only too often the misstepping stone of the unwary narrator. "The Drums of Yle" by J. U. Nicolson (Covici) is a point in case. It purports to be a story of old England when the not unlustful barons claimed their rights in matters of love. There is considerable movement inthe narrative; the picture of the lovely heroine, born to be a queen yet reared as a peasant girl in an alien land, is not without charm. Unfortunately, neither the employment of backward-reading verses, in versimilitude to old English, nor the vigor of the poetic form in which the poet chooses to clothe histale, makes what simpler treatment could effect—a truly fine poem." B120
Price: 25 USD
Location: Burtonsville, Maryland
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Year Printed: 1925
Topic: Poetry
Subject: Literature & Fiction
