Collectible - Good First Edition Signed

INSCRIBED! London and NY: John Lane and The Bodley Head, 1899. 1st edition. Sm 8vo Hardcover. 52pp+B/W illustrated frontis. Inscribed by author: 'For // Mr. James Carleton Young // as requested // Wilfrid Scawen Blunt // Feb. 13. 1909.' on front free endpaper. Near Very Good book. Brown cloth with gilt spine lettering and untrimmed pages. Light edgewear. Boards faded, warped and lightly soiled. Pages age toned. Penciled scoring to a few pages throughout. Blunt was married to Lady Anne Isabella Noel Blunt, granddaughter of Lord Byron. Was a friend of Winston Churchill, assisted Churchill in writing a biography for his father. In polypropylene bag. (literature, poetry, poems) Inquire if you need further information.