things poets said von gordon bottomley robert eckert walter (2 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. James Guthrie (illustrator). 1st Edition. 22pp + iii prelims. Printed on hand-made paper in a limited numbered edition of 150 copies. Collection of poems in memory of Edward Thomas by twelve poets, including Gordon Bottomley, Walter de la Mare, Vivian Locke Ellis, James Guthrie, Robert Frost, Teresa Hooley and Kenneth Morris. Foreword by Robert P. Eckert Jr. Dark brown cloth quarter binding with crease to tip of top and tail of spine. Grey paper covered boards with a green title plate tipped to front cover. Crease to tip of lower front corner. Green and white illustrated title page. E T decorative device on Content's page. Number of other decorations and illustrative page headings together with the Pear Tree Press motif. Untrimmed fore edge and lower page edges. Light toning on ffep and rfep.

First edition, first printing. Inscribed presentation copy. Publisher's grey paper covered boards, black buckram spine with printed paper label to the upper board. An excellent clean and tight copy, the fragile spine with some fraying to the lower edge is holding firm. The contents with the decorative bookplate of John Gold to the front pastedown and with pertinent pencil inscriptions to the front endpaper are otherwise clean and bright throughout. A collection of poems in memory of Edward Thomas. Inscribed by the publisher James Guthrie in pencil at the head of the front free endpaper "To John Gold / from James" underneath which Gold has inscribed "To Roger / fr John / Aug 1949". Limited to 150 copies of which this is hand-numbered 105. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.