Full Title:

The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance

Publication:

New York, E.P. Dutton & Co., 1952

Binding:

Crown octavo, 8 in. x 5¾ in.; brick cloth with gilt lttering and decorations on spine, and gilt decorations on front cover; tope edge trimmed, otherwise untrimmed. Spine: [device of eleven rows of decorated rules] | THE | WORM | OUROBOROS | [rule] | EDDISON | [three stacked devices, each of eleven rows of decorated rules] | DUTTON. Front cover: gilt device, likely by Keith Henderson, centered on cover (see image above).

Notes:

This second American edition is significant because it prints for the first time a valuable new introduction by Orville Prescott. It also include the introduction written by James Stephens for the 1926 first American edition.