Seller: Harry Righton, Evesham, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good +. usual library marks, large grubby mark to fep from sticker removal. jacket faded around edges. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. Seller Inventory # 401104
Seller: Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First impression of the first collected edition. ***Very good indeed in black cloth-covered boards with silver titles to spine. Lower edge of rear board slightly bumped. Hint of foxing to top edge of text-lock. Interior pages clean and bright. No inscriptions. Spine tight. ***In a very good indeed colour printed, price-clipped dustwrapper. Very slight fading to spine and edges of dustwrapper. Tiny nick and crease to bottom edge of rear panel of dustwrapper. ***203 pages. 222 mm x 144 mm. *** 'This Collected Poems brings the three volumes - Come Softly to My Wake (1971), Background Music (1973) and Of Snails and Skylarks (1977) for the first time in a single edition. Frank Delaney, the well-known writer and broadcaster, has written a new introduction in honour of the occasion.' (Quote from inside front wrapper blurb). ***'Vigorous and sensual --- of his sincerity and passionate commitment to language there is never any doubt' [The Times review of Come Softly To My Wake - quote from back of jacket review blurb] ***Uncommon. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. Seller Inventory # 2503