Forty Poems and Ballads

by Francis Scarfe

$175 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

London: The Fortune Press, 1942 . Poetry FIRST EDITION, first issue red cloth. Octavo 20 x 14cm , pp.64. Publisher's red cloth, gilt titles to spine. With the typographic dust-jacket priced at 6s to front flap. Fore and lower edges untrimmed. Some leaves still unopened. Light toning to fore edge. Spotting to lower margin of half-title. Light toning to jacket spine and extremities. Very good. Collection from the British wartime poet. Item #70228

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