New York: Barse & Hopkins, undated. 12mo with light blue paper boards and cream spine; blue endpapers; frontispiece; deckle edges; 30p; 18cm; original glassine jacket. Near fine; minor shelfwear and toning to edges; small dampstain at top edge into spine; pages clean. Hardcover.
Part of the Golden Books series. "In Memoriam C.T.W., Sometime trooper of the Royal Horse Guards OBIIT H.M. Prison, Reading, Berkshire" on page before poem. A pivotal work of dissident poetry by the Irish author, poet and playwright who was criminally convicted and imprisoned for 'gross indecency' and homosexual acts in 1895.
