A Clip of Steel

by Thomas Blackburn

$30 · Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

London: Macgibbon & Kee, 1969. First Edition. Octavo. Red cloth boards; dustjacket; 126pp. Inconspicuous faint stain to bottom edge of text block, else a fine, tight copy in unclipped, lightly edge-rubbed jacket, Near Fine. Post-war British poet's memoir of a strict Victorian upbringing and his dissipated later youth. The clip of steel of the title refers to a device inflicted

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