This is a rare find for book collectors and literature enthusiasts. The Pageant of Letters, written by Alfred Noyes, is a first edition with a dust jacket in very good plus condition. This book of literary essays is signed by the author on the title page and is in excellent condition. Includes a dust jacket ( not price clipped) also in excellent condition now in a protective mylar cover.

Noyes is most famous for his narrative poem The Highwayman published in 1906. He is best known as a poet and literary critic but also wrote plays. He adored the Romantic poets (Whitman, Keats, Wordsworth) and was later criticized for not joining the Modernist movement happening during his tenure. He was born in Wales and came to the USA during WW II championing the allied effort against Hitler. He taught at Princeton for several years, F. Scott Fitzgerald being one of his pupils.