Forty Poems and Ballads

by Francis Scarfe

£195 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books

First edition

London: The Fortune Press, c.1942 . Poetry FIRST EDITION. Ex libris W.J. Harvery, Seamus Heaney's teacher. Octavo 20 x 14cm , pp.64. Publisher's pink cloth, gilt titles to spine. With the typographic dust-jacket priced at 6s to front flap. Fore and lower edges untrimmed. Harvery's black ink signature to front flyleaf, dated 1945. Internally clean, light spotting only to endpapers. Top edge spotted. Sunning to cloth. Toning to jacket spine and covers. Minor

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