Description
Skelton, John Fawcett. The Gleaner: A Selection of Poems & Songs. London / Manchester: Simkin, Marshall & Co. / Heywood, 1876. First Edition. Rebacked Original Publisher’s Purple Cloth Boards. Very Good. 200pp. Inscribed by Skelton in blue pencil in April 1876 for a Mr Briscoe, the Nottingham Public Librarian. There are quite a number of corrections to the text in the same pencil as well as a few in standard pencil. Tipped onto the front pastedown is a four page humorous & chatty letter dated October1877 detailing current work. Sympathetically re-backed with some rubbing at edges & fore corners of boards.
Being Alive 
Hansel and Gretel 
Selected Poems 
Carnac (Bloodaxe Contemporary French Poets) 
Words the Turtle Taught Me 
Essential Poems from the Staying Alive Trilogy 
Somewhere Else Entirely 
Spiritlands 
This Is Yarrow