THE GATES OF SLEEP and Other Poems

by J. G. Fairfax

A$550 · Offered by Kay Craddock Antiquarian Bookseller

First edition

Pp. 64 last colophon, verso blank ; f'cap. 8vo; purple paper wrappers, lettered and decorated in black, edges a trifle rubbed, the backstrip slightly faded; uncut and partly unopened; a little light foxing; Elkin Matthews, London, 1906. First edition. The Vigo Cabinet series, No. 38. *Author's first book. James Griffyth Fairfax 1886-1976 , a grandson of newspaper tycoon John Fairfax, published several volumes of poetry, mostly before the First World War. During the war he served in the

• Binding: Wrappers

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