The Conqueror Worm: Llewelyn Powys: A Consumptive's Diary, 1910

Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. 1st Edition, Powys Society 2015. 179pp. Portrait frontispiece, several illustrations from manuscripts, drawings and photographs. Appears as new, unopened and unread, very good clean tight sound square, no bookplate, inscriptions or marks of any kind. Very good in laminated colour pictorial paperback. Younger brother of John Cowper Powys, Llewelyn contracted tuberculosis at the age of 25, and began his diary from a Swiss sanatorium, a major record of the consumptive experience. He also wrote and received letters there, which are a hiterto untapped source of Powys material.