By Walter de la Mare
1938
Limited First Edition.
No 318 out of 400.

Walter John de la Mare OM CH ( 25 April 1873 – 22 June 1956) was an English poet, short story writer and novelist. He is probably best remembered for his works for children, for his poem "The Listeners", and for his psychological horror short fiction, including "Seaton's Aunt", "The Green Room" and "All Hallows". In 1921, his novel Memoirs of a Midget won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction, and his post-war Collected Stories for Children won the 1947 Carnegie Medal for British children's books.

This essay by Walter de la Mare has been written specially as the Introduction to an anthology of his, STORIES, ESSAYS, AND POEMS, which will be published in EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY on 7th April 1938.

It is here printed in an edition limited to four hundred copies for private distribution by J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd, of Aldine House, Bedford Street, London, W.C.2.

R1,000