SAGITTA (= John Henry MACKAY) - Am Rande des Lebens. Gedichte der namenlosen Liebe.

Berlin-Treptow, Bernhard Zack's Verlag, 1909. 21 x 17 cm. Original wrappers. 64 p. Endpapers of fibrous Japanese paper. Printed on laid paper in 1000 numbered copies. Uncut. 1st edition. A bit worn and soiled, some waterstains, slightly wavy paper. "At the Edge of Life". Gay love poetry, not without pathos, rhythmical stanzas and full of loud cries, all about the love of a man for adolescent boys. This volume of diverse poems was published after Sagitta's first two books were forbidden, and the plans for his third and fourth Books of Nameless Love were abandoned. First edition, luxuriantly printed in 1000 copies on Zanders Bütten with endpapers of thin Japanese paper, and covers of Imperial Japanese (blocked in gold). Uncut. Numbered (279) and dated "20. Juni 1911". Of the book publications under Mackay's pseudonym Sagitta during his life (1864-1933) this is the fourth: SAGITTA 04 (1909).