POEMS 1953.
London: Cassell & Company, Ltd., [1953]. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Green cloth, gilt spine. 30,[2] pp. Literary ownership signature, place and date on front pastedown, along with an Oxford booksellers' tiny label. Fine in a very good, lightly dust soiled jacket with one tiny nip at the lower spine edge.
First edition. The former owner of this book, William Arrowsmith, was a teacher, a scholar, a poet and a translator, a classicist, an expert on drama, an educational theorist, and a virtuoso film critic. He was also an authority on modern Italian literature and a rebel against university education (with earned degrees from Princeton and Oxford and some ten honorary degrees). Fine. Item #715
Higginson & Williams A68a.
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