The Ghost Ship by Middleton, Richard Village of Eden, NY, Aries Press, 1926. One of 300 copies printed on handmade paper. Middleton, whose works are listed in Young, was a rather frail but beautiful lad who committed suicide in his twenties and was a member of a literary circle that included Frank Harris, Austin Harrison, and Lord Alfred Douglas. Ghost Ship is a parable about a spectral pirate ship that alights in the middle of an English turnip field. The ship's captain entertains the local village ghosts of young men, plying them with rum until they run off with him and his ship for shores unseen. Many years later, a few return covered with tattoos and not the least bit interested in renewing friendships with the local ghosts of young ladies they so heartless abandoned. (I wonder what he was getting at? See B.R. Burg's Sodomy and the Perceptions of Evil English sea rovers in the seventeenth century Caribbean for the real dirt on pirates and Peter Pan.) Follows 1912 London edition. Marbled boards, slight wear to edges, else fine (issued without DJ?), 20 p. OCLC listing. $350