The Crock of Gold by James Stephens; Thomas Mackenzie - 1926

E-044: MacMillan Company. Good+. 1926. Hardcover. Leather. 8vo. Macmillan Company, London, UK. 1926. 228 pgs. Illustrated with 12 color plates and black and white intertextual vignettes. Bound in full green leather by Sangorski and Sutcliffe. Leather decorated with gilt rule present to the boards gilt titles present to the front board and spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The Crock of Gold is a comic novel written by Irish author James Stephens. The Philosopher is arrested for murder after the neighbouring Leprecauns of Gort na Clocha Mora (whose crock of gold has been taken) lay information with the police that the two friends who shared the Philosopher's house have died, with the implication that they have been killed. "It is in circumstances such as these that dangerous alliances are made," wrote Stephens, "and, for the first time in history, the elemental beings invoked bourgeois assistance." E-044; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 228 pages .