£30
8vo, pp. 79, [5]. Original green wrappers, white label to front wrapper printed in black. Just a touch of spotting. Wrappers lightly marked, crease to corner of rear wrapper, oversized edges a little bumped. Small pencil note to front wrapper.
The collected poems of J. Meade Falkner exist in 2 variant printings, most obviously distinguished by their brown or green wrappers, but per Pollard, 'quite distinct editions, differently set up by different printers in different text types; but sufficiently alike for the format of one to have been copied from the other. There is no mystery about the green wrapper edition, of which 500 copies were printed for Mrs Meade Falkner in July 1933. The brown wrapper edition looks like a piece of provincial printing and contains several obvious misprints. There has never been any popular, or even collectors', demand for these poems; and it seems inconceivable that the brown wrapper edition should be a piracy or a copy of the edition in green. The presumption, therefore, is that the green wrapper edition is the second edition set up from the one in brown wrappers' (Pollard, 'Some Uncollected Authors', Book Collector Vol IX, pp. 322).
