The Coming Forth By Day of Osiris Jones.

Aiken (Conrad)

The Coming Forth By Day of Osiris Jones.

Description: FIRST EDITION, title-page with border in red and vignette by Cleon (Cleonike Damianakes), the latter also contributing the tailpiece, pp. [ix], 43, 8vo, original sea-green cloth lettered in gilt to upper board and backstrip, a little fading to backstrip and borders of cloth, edges untrimmed, bookplate of Louis Schermerhorn to front pastedown, dustjacket by Cleon a little toned and frayed with a few spots of internal tape repair, good

Publication Details: New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1931

Notes: Inscribed by the author on the flyleaf: 'For Michael Armstrong, from Conrad Aiken, 1964', noting this as 'one of the uncorrected first editions in which, on page 37, THE MUSIC should have been in small italics, at left, and NOT a new title!'.The recipient was the nephew of Martin Armstrong and Jessie McDonald - the latter was Aiken's first wife, who subsequently married his close friend. In the year of this inscription, Michael Armstrong had written a memoir of his childhood that drew the ire of his aunt for its revelation of family matters - a perspective perhaps hardened by Aiken's own mem...moreInscribed by the author on the flyleaf: 'For Michael Armstrong, from Conrad Aiken, 1964', noting this as 'one of the uncorrected first editions in which, on page 37, THE MUSIC should have been in small italics, at left, and NOT a new title!'.The recipient was the nephew of Martin Armstrong and Jessie McDonald - the latter was Aiken's first wife, who subsequently married his close friend. In the year of this inscription, Michael Armstrong had written a memoir of his childhood that drew the ire of his aunt for its revelation of family matters - a perspective perhaps hardened by Aiken's own memoir, 'Ushant', in which an unflattering portrait of her second husband appears. HIDE