Celtic Stories by Edward Thomas - 1911

Oxford : At the Clarendon Press, 1911. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 7.5" by 5". None . The scarce first edition of this early work by Edward Thomas. The first edition of this work. Scarce book of essays by Edward Thomas concerned with the Celtic folklore. Edward Thomas was a British writer of poetry and prose. A prolific critic, biographer, nature writer and travel writer as well as poet; he died in battle during the Battle of Arras in 1917 in World War I. He is considered to be a war poet. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally smart with light shelf wear, bumped to head and tail of spine and extremities, boards and back strip gently marked. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Very Good