THE CRIMSON THORN: POEMS FOR LOVERS 1931-1941

by John Gawsworth, Terence Ian Fytton Armstrong

$100 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition · Signed

Calcutta: Susil Gupta, 1945 . Octavo, pp. 64, illustrations by Frederick Carter, original tan boards, printed paper labels affixed to front and spine panels. First edition. Signed inscription by Gawsworth to Omarali Chowohury on half title leaf. Selections from nine previous volumes of poetry with a brief foreword by Lascelles Abercrombie. Carter's designs are from Rich & Cowan's POEMS 1930-1932. Gawsworth notes here,

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