FIFTY POEMS A SELECTION BY EDGELL RICKWORD. With an introduction by Roy Fuller. This edition is limited to 362 copies.This is copy no. 240
Published by Enitharmon Press, London, 1970
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FIRST EDITION THUS. 8vo. 9.5 x 6.25 inches. [6] + [iv] + 64 + [3] pp. Title page in red and black. Bound in original orange cloth with printed paper spine label. A very good clean copy. Signed by author below limited edition statement at end. Illustrated by portrait frontispiece. Fifty poems selected from the verse of war poet, Edgell Rickword (1898-1982). He joined the Artist Rifles in 1916, was commissioned to the Royal Berkshire Regiment and served on the Western Front where he was twice wounded and was awarded the MC. In 1919 he lost one eye, but had a long career as a critic and as an influential literary magazine editor, joining the CPGB in 1934. This collection contains five of his best war poems including the very powerful Trench Poets, as well as the more strangely entitled Regret for the Depopulation of Rural Districts and Complaint of a Tadpole confined in a Jam Jar. The poems are chosen from the three volumes published in 1921, 28 and the Collected Poems of 1947; two are published here in book form for the first time. Edited by Roy Fuller (1912-91), poet and novelist, who published from 1939 and was Professor of Poetry at Oxford, 1968-73. POETRY WW1 POETRY WW1 SIGNED POETRY.…
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- Title
- FIFTY POEMS A SELECTION BY EDGELL RICKWORD. With an introduction by Roy Fuller. This edition is limited to 362 copies.This is copy no. 240
- Author
- RICKWORD, EDGELL. FULLER, ROY, edited by.
- Publisher
- Enitharmon Press, London
- Publication year
- 1970
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Founded by Patrick Marrin's father George in 1946, Marrin's Bookshop has been based in its current Folkestone location since 1963. Patrick has worked in bookselling since 1970. As well as rare antiquarian books, maps and prints, the stock includes a wide range of literature, library sets, travel, history and illustrated books in all fields. We also offer a bookbinding and restoration service. Visitors to the shop are welcome and we exhibit at UK book fairs. A large proportion of our stock can be searched on this website, or at http://www.marrinbook.co.uk.…
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