Author's name, "(T W H Crosland)" written in pencil on cover page. "1st Ed. 1916" also written on inside page

One other copy with same edition listed in collection.

Signed by Miriam Nicholas in ink on inside of front cover

Only two copies listed on WorldCat.


Reilly p. 100

From Wikipedia

Thomas William Hodgson Crosland (July 21, 1865 or 1868–1924), was a British author, poet, journalist and friend of royalty.

"He was an associate and friend of Lord Alfred Douglas, who was Oscar Wilde's lover. The bitter feud between Lord Alfred's father the Marquess of Queensberry and his son resulted in Wilde sueing the Marquess for libel at Douglas’s urging. Subsequently Wilde was charged with homosexuality after the Marquess produced evidence of Wilde’s behaviour as justifying the libel. In 1895 Wilde was found guilty and imprisoned. After the trial Crosland, a fanatical Christian homophobe, united with Douglas, who claimed to be reformed and had become a pious Catholic, and together they persecuted Robbie Ross in the civil courts in a variety of actions. They also repeatedly wrote and visited the police and the Director of Public Prosecutions, trying to ensure Ross' arrest for homosexual offences. (See J Fryer, 'Robert Ross. Oscar Wilde's Devoted Friend', pp. 75–90 and passim.)
Thomas was a humanitarian who frequently wrote in his poems about the impoverished and sick and unemployed, especially caring about returned soldiers in the First World War. Battling many illnesses, he died in 1924, leaving a wife and son."