Father to Son: Extracts from the Letters of Philip Guy Stevens

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Stevens Philip Guy; Stevens Alan (editor); Scott Sir Harold (foreword). Father to Son: Extracts from the Letters of Philip Guy Stevens. Shrewsbury: Wilding & Son Ltd, . First Edition. Red Cloth. Very Good. (1952). 208pp. Inscribed by Stevens Jr. for the Georgian poet Oliver Davies his father’s colleague & lifelong friend. Given that Stevens was governor of Shrewsbury Prison these letters show an unassuming sensibility “We are, most of us, so very ordinary we never bother to discover one another… there is nothing more elusive than the obvious.” A section of his own poems is included at the rear. Some foxing at text-block edges & end papers. 0