The Yellow book : a selection / compiled by Norman Denny

London: Spring Books, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine decorated cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 372 pages, 36 leaves frontispiece, illustrations, plates 19.7 cm. Notes: Contents include Henry James' The death of the lion, George Gissing's The foolish virgin, W.B. Yeats' The blessed & illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley & Max Beerbohm. Contents: Literature. The death of the lion / Henry James -- Two sonnets / William Watson -- The invisible prince / Henry Harland -- Reticence in literature / Hubert Crackanthrope -- Credo / Arthur Symons -- The foolish virgin / George Gissing -- Two songs / Rosamund Marriott-Watson -- A defense of cosmetics / Max Beerbohm -- The death mask / Ella D'Arcy -- Fleet Street eclogue / John Davidson -- Long odds / Kenneth Grahame -- Two prose fancies / Richard Le Gallienne -- The blessed / W.B. Yeats -- The quest of sorrow / Mrs. Ernest Leverson -- Stories Toto told me / Baron Corvo -- Two sonnets / Maurice Baring -- A letter home / Enoch Arnold Bennett -- from ""The Yellow Dwarf"" -- Pierrot / Olive Custance -- The actor / Stanley V. Makower -- Passion / Richard Garnett -- A journey of little profit / John Buchan -- A fire / Stephen Phillips -- Chapelle dissidente / Dauphin Meunier -- Wladislaw's advent / M�nie Muriel Dowie -- A dream of November / Edmund Gosse -- Apple blossom in Brittany / Ernest Dowson -- The rose / Henry W. Nevinson -- Mr. Stevenson's forerunner / James Ashcroft Noble -- The fool's hour / John Oliver Hobbes and George Moore.