BLACKWOOD, Algernon.

£750 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

The Bright Messenger. First edition, first impression, in the rare dust jacket. This sequel to Julius Le Vallon (1916) is "the book Blackwood really wanted to write" (Ashley). His earlier portrait of a man possessed by an elemental spirit finds its full expression in this title, in which Le Vallon's child Julian becomes the potential half-human half-spirit saviour of mankind."The Bright Messenger was not just the long-awaited finale to Julius Levallon, but the last piece in Blackwood's grand design, the culmination of [his] crusade to make people aware of beauty in the world... once he had completed The Bright Messenger, Blackwood had nothing else to tell the world" (Ashley). This copy has the bookplate of the poet Orford Young on the front pastedown, author of the little-known verse collection Diminutives (1924).

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