Ironic Tales by Laurence Housman (RB227)

Published 1926: First Edition / Hardcover / Very Good Condition

Original green cloth with gilt titles on the spine and original pictorial dust jacket. 224 very clean and bright pages, mild speckled edge. Slight shelf wear on dust jacket and along the edges consistent with age. Scarce! (RB227)

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First edition and first printing. "First published in MCMXXVI". -- title page verso. Publisher's device on title page. English. Contents; A blind world. -- The perfect one. -- Educating our masters. -- Blind knowledge. -- Joy in heaven. -- The real temptation of St. Anthony. -- The turn of the worm. -- Philosophical romances. -- The wise penny and the foolish pound. -- Winkiboo. -- The talking horse. -- Means to an end. -- A landlord and his rent. -- The family fairy. -- Kill or cure. -- Blind love. -- Lady into George Fox. -- A side-wind.

Laurence Housman (18 July 1865 – 20 February 1959) was an English playwright, writer and illustrator whose career stretched from the 1890s to the 1950s. He studied art in London and worked largely as an illustrator during the first years of his career, before shifting focus to writing. He was a younger brother of the poet A. E. Housman. [Google Books]