Poems

by Elizabeth Jennings

$150 · Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books

First edition · Signed

Swinford, Eynsham, Oxon: Fantasy Press, 1953. First Edition. Printed salmon wrappers; 8vo. 40 pp. Inscribed by the poet to Bernard Bergonzi. Light soiling and wear, spine a bit wrinkled, with slight split along the tail, still easily very good. The poet's first collection, and very scarce signed. Bergonzi, best known as a T. S. Eliot scholar, like his near-contemporary Jennings

• Binding: Wrappers

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