First edition. Signed by the author. Limited edition. Publisher's original beige buckram over bevelled boards, titles stamped in blind to the upper board and in gilt over black to the spine. Top edge brown. In the brown cloth slipcase. Frontispiece and one further full page illustration by David Jones. A near fine copy, the binding square and tight, bright and fresh with some faint toning to the spine. The contents are clean throughout and without previous owners' marks. Housed in the lightly rubbed and faded, structurally sound slipcase.
Issued in a limited edition of 150 copies, this example is numbered 51 and signed by David Jones in black ink on the limitation page. The last work published by Jones in his lifetime, 'The Sleeping Lord' continues the exploration of themes begun by its predecessors 'In Parenthesis' and 'The Anathemata'.
Stock code: 28229
£325