Last Straws by Richard Aldington with the original glassine jacket first 1930

ALDINGTON, Richard (1892-1962). Last Straws. Paris: Hours Press, 1930.
 
First edition. Number 221 of an edition of 700 numbered copies, this copy unsigned. 61 pp. Tall octavo. Original patterned paper-covered boards with black title label to upper board, retaining the original glassine jacket. Light wear to corners and edges, with some browning to the endpapers; otherwise a clean and very good copy. The fragile glassine jacket is chipped and torn at the edges with some loss, but remains substantially intact. Book Very Good, jacket Good.
 
Published by Nancy Cunard's Hours Press in Paris, Last Straws is a collection of short prose pieces by Richard Aldington, the poet, novelist and former Imagist. A copy, retaining the uncommon and fragile original glassine jacket.