Modred: A Fragment [Signed, Limited edition]

New York: Edmond Byrne Hackett: The Brick Row Bookshop, Inc, 1929. First, Limited Edition. One of 250 copies, of which this is no.147 and signed by the author. Octavo (20.5cm); black linen spine over deep blue paper-coverd boards, with titling stamped in gilt on spine; fore-edge untrimmed; printed on robin's egg blue paper; 18pp. Front pastedown has previous ownership bookplate, belonging to American attorney Osmond Kessler Fraenkel, who served as general counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union. Light rubbing to spine and board edges; Very Good+. A "deleted fragment" from Robinson's long-poem "Lancelot." Printed by Peter Beilenson, proprietor of (truncated) the Peter Pauper Press. HOGAN p.35. [84892]. (Inventory #: 84892)