Time lags abed.

£100 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

With the poet’s inscription to Eddie Marsh on the colophon leaf “For Eddie”. A single sonnet by New Zealand born poet, famous for his part in a gay blackmail scandal when the Mayor of Wanganui attempted to murder him. OCLC reports five copies, only one of which is in the US - at Delaware. Marsh played his usual role of patron to Cresswell: Hassall makes the (possibly rather coded) note that he “was introducing Cresswell to literary London and as a companion was finding refreshment in his forthright and unconventional cast of mind”.

• Year: 1930

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