DOYLE, Arthur Conan (1859-1930). The Last Galley. Impressio...

8vo. 2 color illustrations by N.C. Wyeth and Harry Rountree. Original dark red cloth blocked in black and yellow (few small dampstains to spine and rear cover); ORIGINAL DUST JACKET (extremities sunned, more so to spine and front panel, some light chipping and rubbing to extremities).

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, in the RARE DUST JACKET. “The author rated these stories, which are reprinted as Tales of Long Ago, among his best. In the preface to omnibus edition of the stories he states ‘if all my work were to be destroyed save only that one single section which I might elect to preserve, my choice would certainly by those short historical pictures which come under the heading of ‘Tales of Long Age’” (Green and Gibson A35c).