Description
AB116000, Davies Oliver, Plain Song, London, 1949, Staples Press, First Edition, Blue Cloth, Near Fine, Very Good, Signed by Author(s), 70pp. Presentation inscription dated 1955 from Davies to Raymond Garlick on ffep.Laid in are a t.l.s. a signed printed Christmas poem, the Poetry Bookshop Rhyme Sheet; Staffordshire illustrated by Claude Lovat Fraser (folded & lightly foxed), a 1913 news paper article on Lovat Fraser’s series, other newspaper poems, Davies’ last poem copied out by his wife & 2 letters from her; one a resume of their life together & the writers they’d known. End papers darkened. Dust jacket torn & chipped at head with darkened spine. Whiff of tobacco.