Sale 2514 - The Pride Sale, June 20, 2019

31 c A.E. HOUSMAN (1859-1936) A Shropshire Lad. 8 color illustrations by William Hyde. 8vo, gilt-pictorial brown cloth. London: Heinemann, (1908). [200/300] first illustrated edition . Housman’s muse and unrequited love interest was fellow Oxford student Moses Jackson. Literary critics have noted that he inspired many of the poems in this volume, a popular book during World War I. 31 32 32 c JOHN GAMBRIL NICHOLSON (1866-1931) The Romance of a Choir-Boy. 8vo, publisher’s gilt-lettered green cloth, minor rubbing to extremities; scattered light, mostly marginal foxing; owner’s signature on title-page. London, 1916. [300/400] scarce first edition of a bittersweet semi- autobiographical novel of a young boy with a beautiful voice whose talent is nurtured by the chaste but romantic affections of the protagonist. Nicholson was a member of the Order of Chaeronea, a secret society for men founded in 1897 by George Ives.