Caledonia: A Fragment

Published by Privately Printed, London, 1934

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Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA

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First edition. Small, thin quarto. Illustrated by Edward Burra. Red cloth spine with tartan-design papercovered boards with applied title label. A fine copy, with none of the usual rubbing. A Powell rarity, one of approximately 100 copies, a long poem prepared for his wedding by friends. This copy Inscribed to Jonathan Cecil, the son of David Cecil who was Powell's boon companion when they both were at Eton, with over twenty corrections and emendations in Powell's hand mostly identifying those in the text whose identity had been protected with dashes. Laid in is a Typed Letter Signed by Powell to Cecil at a much later date: "I don't believe I ever gave your father this squib, the origins of which are in my memoirs. I made up the verses during a period of insomnia. A drunken friend had about a hundred printed as a wedding present by a still more drunken printer.".

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Title
Caledonia: A Fragment
Author
POWELL, Anthony
Publisher
Privately Printed, London
Publication year
1934
Condition
Fine
Signed
Signed by Author(s)
Binding
Hardcover
Edition
1st Edition
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