Lycidas.: A Lament for a friend drowned in his passage from Chester on the Irish Seas, 1637.

Paris: Jack Kahane at the Obelisk Press,, 1933. Scarce publisher's presentation copy First Obelisk Press edition, first impression, presentation copy, printed with the recipient's name Harry A. Woodruff on the limitation page, and accompanied by a presentation card inscribed by the publisher to Woodruff and loosely inserted: "Please accept this small edition of one of the finest pieces of English, done to please myself. Jack Kahane". The limitation declares that the edition consists solely of 25 copies, each of them reserved for the publisher's presentation and printed with the name of the intended recipient. However, Neal Pearson notes the existence of some other copies that are rather printed with "hors de commerce"; he explains that, "whether these copies are part of the declared print run of 25, and Kahane simply ran out of dedicatees, or whether there were 25 personally dedicated copies as well as an additional number of hors de commerce copies, is unknown". Harry Adsit Woodruff (1903-1952) was a business student of the Ecole des Roches and the Ecole des Sciences Politique in Paris around the time of publication. In 1941, he "served as vice consul in Tunisia under Robert D. Murphy. He took an active part in preparing the American landings in North Africa. For his liaison work between the French and Americans he received the Medal for Merit, the French Croix de Guerre and the Legion of Honor. In August 1944, he was transferred to the staff of the American Embassy in Paris and in 1945 he attended the San Francisco conference as a liaison officer between the French and American delegations" (New York Times). Jack Kahane's son Maurice Girodias rebranded the Obelisk Press as the Olympia Press in 1953, and published Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita (1955); the Obelisk and Olympia Presses also published Henry Miller. Octavo, pp. 12. Original cream wrappers, front cover lettered in red and black, edges untrimmed. Housed in the original blue marbled slipcase and chemise. Front wrapper, title page and running titles printed in red and black. A few light marks to wrappers and pastedowns, contents fresh. A very good copy indeed, the slipcase chemise sunned with slight rubbing and wear to edges, small tear to head of slipcase. Pearson A24. New York Times, "Former Diplomat is a Suicide Here", 13 January 1952.