![Item #120 [Housman, Laurence- ALS to Henry Davray] Laurence Housman to Henry Davray (editor)....](https://nudelmanbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/120.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1326912295)
3 pages, folded octavo. Blind-stamped heading. Battersea Park, S.W., Oct. 16th, [1899]. ALS from Laurence Housman to Henry D. Davray, editor Murcure de France, a Paris literary journal. “My dear Davray, Madame has sent me a little card with her portrait. Will you please give her from me the enclosed..... (Item #120)
![Item #2781 [Housman, Laurence] A Nativity Play. Laurence Housman](https://nudelmanbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2781.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1440868847)
London: Macmillan, 1902. First edition. Original light green paper-covered boards with repeating devices in red on cover. 44pp. A fine copy of the scarce larger format binding than the usual smaller green cloth with gilt devices on cover. (Item #2781)
![Item #7047 [Housman, Laurence] All-Fellow, Seven Legends of Lower Redemption with Insets in...](https://nudelmanbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/7047_1.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1778968086)
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1896. First Edition. 8vo, 138pp, 6pp ad for "Farm in Fairyland." Publisher's green cloth with large interlaced gilt-stampe central pattern, gilt lettering on spine. Rubricated title page with similar cover design motif, with eight superb wood-engraved plates by Housman, on smooth paper. Fine..... (Item #7047)
![Item #2795 [Housman, Laurence] Cloak of Friendship. Laurence Housman](https://nudelmanbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2795.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1440868770)
London: John Murray, 1905. First edition. Original brown polished buckram with cover and spine design by Laurence Housman. Rubricated title-page. A fine copy. (Item #2795)
![Item #2786 [Housman, Laurence] Echo de Paris, A Study From Life. Laurence Housman](https://nudelmanbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2786.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1440951795)
London: Jonathan Cape, 1923. First edition. Original cloth backed marbled paper-covered boards. Large Paper Copy, Limited to 250 Numbered and Signed Copies, #CVIV. In scarce original beige dust wrapper with purple lettering and borders. Wrapper and book are fine. Scarce thus. Housed in superb marbled paper over boards folders and..... (Item #2786)
![Item #2820 [Housman, Laurence] Spikenard. Laurence Housman](https://nudelmanbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2820.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1440868770)
London: Grant Richards, 1898. First edition. Brown paper-covered boards with attractive gilt repeating design on cover, gilt design and lettering on spine. Title-page printed in red. First issue without publisher’s ads. Partially unopened. A fine copy. (Item #2820)
![Item #7048 [Housman, Laurence] The Field of Clover. Laurence Housman](https://nudelmanbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/7048_1.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1778968086)
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1898. First Edition. 8vo. 148 pp, ads in back. Publisher's original gree cloth blocked in dark green, with gilt blocked statuesque design on cover, gilt lettering on spine. Twelve stunning plates by Laurence Housman on smooth paper.Fine. (Item #7048)
![Item #2796 [Housman, Laurence] The House of Joy [Together with] The Field of Clover. Laurence...](https://nudelmanbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2796.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1440868847)
London: Kegan, Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, 1895, 1898. First editions. Offered here are two fine copies of some of Housman’s most endearing and recognizable book covers and illustrations, matched together due to the collector’s discerning eye and housed in a folding box with superb marbled paper over boards. Two..... (Item #2796)
![Item #2798 [Housman, Laurence] The New Hangman, A Play in One Act. Laurence Housman](https://nudelmanbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2798.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1440868847)
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1930. First edition. Original light blue buckram cloth, gilt lettering on cover. #165 of 250 numbered copies, Signed by Housman. 23pp. Near fine. (Item #2798)
![Item #2776 [[Housman, Laurence]- Presentation Copy] A Farm in Fairyland. Laurence Housman](https://nudelmanbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2776.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1440868770)
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1904. First American edition, using sheets from English edition. Original beige cloth with superb illustration on cover stamped in black with the pool filled in gilt, spine stamped in gilt. Inscribed by Eugene Field to the famous Chicago publisher Irving Way (Way and Williams)..... (Item #2776)
![Item #2901 [Housman, Laurence and Woodroffe, Paul] Of Aucassin and Nicolette. Laurence Housman,...](https://nudelmanbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2901.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1440868770)
London: John Murray, 1902. First American edition. 12mo. Original limp vellum, gilt design on spine by Laurence Housman. Illustrations throughout by Paul Woodroffe. A nice copy, usual slight browning to vellum, else near fine. (Item #2901)
![Item #2794 [Housman, Laurence] Selections form the Writings of WIlliam Blake. Laurence Housman](https://nudelmanbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2794.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1440868847)
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1893. First edition. Maroon smooth cloth with gilt lettering and gilt publisher’s device on cover, gilt lettering on spine, beveled boards. 259pp. Laurence Housman’s first book, with etched frontispiece, rubricated title-page with publisher’s device. Side and bottom edges untrimmed. A fine copy. Scarce..... (Item #2794)
![Item #2917 [Way and Williams] Green Arras. Laurence Housman](https://nudelmanbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2917.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1440868847)
London & Chicago: John Lane; Way and Williams, 1896. First edition. Original green cloth with famous repeating gilt circular leaf design on cover and spine by Laurence Housman. Illustrated endpapers, double-spread woodcut title-page and five full-page plates, initials throughout all by Laurence Housman. A fine copy with front hinge starting..... (Item #2917)
![Item #2771 [Housman, Laurence] Of Aucassin and Nicolette. Laurence Housman, designer/](https://nudelmanbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2771.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1440868847)
London: Chatto & Windus, 1925. First edition. Original holland cloth backed gray paper-covered boards with printed paper label on spine. The rare LARGE PAPER COPY, Number 133 of 160 Copies, Signed by both the illustrator, Paul Woodruffe and the designer, Laurence Housman. Printed on fine Batchelor’s Kelmscott handmade paper. Superb..... (Item #2771)
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