Dent Dormer (2 results)

Condition: Good. No Edition Remarks. 116 pages. No dust jacket. Signed by the author. Red cloth covered boards with gilt lettering. Inscribed by the author, with no signature, to the Preface. Reviews pasted on to end-papers and paste-downs. Pages remain clear with minimal tanning and foxing. End-papers are more notably tanned. Minor pencil marking to front free end-paper. Some occasional mild cracking to gutters throughout, binding remains reasonably firm. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Mild crushing to spine ends. Sunning to spine and board edges. Creased spine cloth. Gilt lettering is darkened. Boards have minor damp and dust stains.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. D.S. Hancock; Unknown (illustrator). First edition. A scarce set of poetry published between 1923-1949, from the comic to the melancholy. All first editions, including signed copies. A Scarce Set of Retrospective Poetry: Published between 1923-1949. All first editions.A Pocket Full of Rye, written and signed by British poet and engraver D.S. Hancock. Publisher's original red cloth. A very scarce anthology, Hancock has engraved a charming woodcut illustration by each of his twenty-four poems. Four of the poems are dedicated to churches, including St. Paul's while others like April and Autumn are celebrations of the seasons. (Published by Arthur H. Stockwell, 1923).The Devil and the Kaiser, written by British poet Dent Dormer. Publisher's original red cloth. A scarce anthology, written by a popular dental surgeon in Plymouth, Dormer hopes that readers will enjoy his poetry during an idle hour. Poems in this particular anthology are often comic and absurdist, such as Hamlet's Soliloquy on Vegetarianism. (Published by Arthur H. Stockwell, 1925).Last Poems, written by English poet John Freeman, with an inscription to 'Roger', a friend of the author. Publisher's original blue cloth, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. An introduction written by fellow English writer and editor of the London Mercury J.C. Squire. After giving up a career in insurance, Freeman became a successful poet, winning the Hawthornden Prize in 1920. His posthumous collection contains only one or two poems that were previously published, while the rest were collected from manuscripts. (Published by Macmillan and Co. in 1930).Here Comes She Home, a scarce and another posthumously published anthology written by British poet, soldier and educationalist Geoffrey Fyson. Publisher's original blue cloth, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. With a frontispiece of the poet. After graduating from Cambridge, Fyson became Director of Education in the Scilly Islands. The personal anthology, is based upon his own wartime experiences, including losing his brother George 'In Memoriam', and being a victim of gas attack, of which he never properly recovered. (Published by Macmillan and Co. in 1949). In the publisher's original cloth, with Last Poems and Home in the original unclipped dust wrappers. Protective coating is adhered to the wrapper and cloth of Home, and cannot be removed. Externally, very smart with minor signs of shelf wear. Slight fading to extremities, heavier to the spines of Devil and Rye. Minor bumping to head and tail of spine of Last Poems, marginally heavier to Rye and Home, and to the extremities. Minimal marks to boards. Dust wrapper are generally bright and clean, with minor edge wear, heavier to wrapper spines and extremities, with small chips to Home. Fading to wrapper spines. The small odd mark to Home, and a small tear to top right of wrapper of Home. End papers are generally bright and clean, with minor offsetting, towards hinge of Last Poems and Home, and to free end papers of Rye and Devil. Heavier offsetting to free end papers of Rye. Internally, firmly bound, with slight wear to hinge between leaves pp.32-33 of Rye. Pages are bright and clean, with the rare spot to leaf extremities of Last Poems, heavier to final leaf. Very Good. signed by author. book.