London: Cassell And Company, Limited, 1931. First U.K. Edition, First Printing [First published 1931, stated]. Hardcover. [12], 518 pages. With eight half-tone plates. Pages has some foxing/spotted staining. Minor edge soiling. Some cover wear. Edgar Lee Masters (August 23, 1868 – March 5, 1950) was an American attorney, poet, biographer, and dramatist. He is the author of Spoon River Anthology, The New Star Chamber and Other Essays, Songs and Satires, The Great Valley, The Serpent in the Wilderness, An Obscure Tale, The Spleen, Mark Twain: A Portrait, Lincoln: The Man, and Illinois Poems. In all, Masters published twelve plays, twenty-one books of poetry, six novels and six biographies, including those of Abraham Lincoln, Mark Twain, Vachel Lindsay, and Walt Whitman. He was admitted to the Illinois bar and moved to Chicago, where he established a law partnership in 1893 with the law firm of Kickham Scanlan. During his law partnership with Clarence Darrow from 1903 to 1908, Masters defended the poor. Masters died in poverty at a nursing home on March 5, 1950, in Melrose Park, Pennsylvania, age 81. More