London: A.R. Mowbray & Co. Ltd., 1963. Softcover, later printing. Pictorial green stiff wrap is bright, minor edge wear and corner bumping, some tanning, beautifully illustrated by Jean Young, very good condition.

The "Hound of Heaven" is a 182-line poem written by English poet Francis Thompson (1859-1907). The poem became famous and was the source of much of Thompson's posthumous reputation. The poem was first published in Thompson's first volume of poems in 1893. (From John Thompson's biography of Francis Thompson). It was included in the Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse (1917). It was also an influence on J. R. R. Tolkien, who read it a few years before it was published in 1917.