NY: Simon and Schuster, 1932. First edition. Vii, 1174pp. Thick 8vo. Blue cloth; gilt titles; blue topstain; bound-in blue bookmark; dust jacket. Sticker removal scar to ffep; mild shelfwear and toning to textblock edges. Very good in a good to very good jacket, shallowly clipped but with original price still present, shallow chipping and spine ends and tips, moderate rubbing and soiling.
The monumental second novel in his Wessex series by English writer John Cowper Powys (1872-1963), hailed as "perhaps the greatest work of our generation" by critic G. Wilson Knight. This American edition preceded by a year the UK edition of 1933.
