Housman, Laurence. GREEN ARRAS. London: John Lane at the Bodley Head; Chicago: Way and Williams, 1896. FIRST EDITION. 8vo - 7-7/8" x 5-1/4". Green cloth covered boards with elaborate decoration and titles stamped in gold to front cover and spine with the lightest touches of wear to the corners and to the head and tail of spine for what is a wonderful copy of a beautiful book. Pale yellow endpapers with stylized long-stemmed flowers in white, with foxing to plain back side of both free endpapers. viii, 90, [2] pp., plus 16 pp. publisher's advertisement and [5] leaves of plates. Housman was an English playwright, writer and illustrator. Green Arras is one of several volumes of poetry that he wrote early in his career before turning to writing novels and plays; illustrated by Housman with frontispiece, illustrated title page and five plates, all printed in black and white; foxing to preliminaries, final page and untrimmed edges of the book block. The condition of the book is VERY GOOD +. # 000858