By Charles Plumb
London: Parry Jackman, (1956).
First edition, first printing, limited, signed--
Though the limitation is stated as 150, our copy is numbered 212, and is
inscribed and SIGNED by the author.
Preface by Roy Campbell.
Delightful wood-cut illustrations by John Peppiatt.
Three longish poems that speak of well-known poets, English history, the bombing of London, Paris of the 1920s, women, passions, and reflections.
"There is a quiet,
sustained, and noble strength in all of them which is truly imposing. His ideas
ascend vertically with unhurried strength like a mountain."--Roy Campbell, from
his introduction.
Charles Plumb edited OXFORD POETRY with his fellow undergraduate W.H. Auden in 1926.
Very good in gilt-stamped tan leather over blue cloth covers, with a good deal of flecking to the covers and a small insect hole to the rear-cover leather.
A lovely, rare, poetry gift!
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