Confessions of a Young Man (First Edition)

MOORE, George. Confessions of a Young Man. London: William Heinemann, 1917.

Octavo. Original red publisher's cloth. Lettering and illustrations stamped on cover and spine in black. Original unclipped dust jacket. xiii, 224 pp., plus 16 pages of publisher's advertisements for "Heinemann's Colonial Library." Fourth English edition — first edition thus of the text as twice revised by the author, in 1904 and again in 1916. Front endpapers carry publisher's advertisements for "Heinemann's Favourite Classics." Previous owner's inscription neatly inked to first page.

Among the very first works in English to introduce British readers to the emerging French Impressionist painters whom Moore had encountered directly during his years among the Parisian avant-garde, at a moment when their reputation had scarcely begun to cross the Channel. It incorporates, in its expanded 1888 edition, Moore's own translations of Stéphane Mallarmé's prose poems, introducing an English readership to Symbolist poetry years before it achieved wider currency. 

Very good in like dust jacket. Dust jacket unclipped, some faint markings here and there, very minor chipping at corners and on edges. Hardcover bindings very good, square and tight. Contents very good, mild toning and some mild foxing throughout.

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Catalogue Number: HH000076