IN THE GREEN TREE. With a Preface by A. L. Rowse a Postscript by Gwyn Jones and a Sonnet by Vernon Watkins. Drawings by John Petts.

FIRST EDITION THUS. 8vo. 8 x 5.5 inches. 141 + [1] + [2] pp. publisher's advertisements and colophon. Bound in original buff cloth, with green titles, in unclipped pictorial dust wrapper, which has sunned spine. Spine lightly sunned and browning of endpapers; otherwise a very good clean copy. loosely inset: TLS Review, A Lost Soldier-Poet, 24 June 1949. illustrated by portrait frontispiece and by text figures, including chapter headings. Decorated by half title and title page vignettes. Alun Lewis (1915-44) was a Welsh poet, regarded as one of the best known English language poets of the Second World War. The Letters, written to his wife and parents, describe his war service and were first published as Letters from India in 1946. The six uncollected short stories first appeared in a several literary journals. His work is evaluated in the Preface by A. L Rowse (1903-97), Cornish poet, historian and biographer. The Postscript with a biographical account of the poet, is by Gwyn Jones (1907-99), Welsh novelist, and the Sonnet by Welsh poet and translator, Vernon Watkins (1906-67). The illustrations are by John Petts (1914-91), London born Welsh artist. WW2 LETTERS CORRESPONDENCE LIT. FICTION WW2 WW2.…