Laurence Dakin (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st. Jacket with sticker mark, chipping and staining along top edge, has been installed in new crystal clear archival wrap, black boards with title on spine, bright orange endpapers. clean copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. softcover, text is in English, reading pages in very good condition, minor age staining to the back cover, 2 small light colored stains to the front cover -looks like coffee, three inch tear to the top spine end of the front cover -no pieces of the cover missing, inscribed to the previous owner inside the front cover,

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. poem about orseoli's of venice.

Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Black boards appear to be a bit dusty. Dust jacket has considerable wear including a chip on rear panel next to flap fold, a 1" split bottom of front flap fold and a quarter sized sticker scar top of front panel next to flap fold. A play. 58 pages.

Couverture souple. Condition: Bon. 86 p. Call number and stamps (some on edge) of library.

French Wraps. Condition: Fine. First Thus. Translated by Laurence Dakin.102p. Book.

Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Unpaginated [104pp] turquoise boards, slightly worn with grime on back.

SOLE EDITION, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR, 8vo, ff. [1], 15]. Loose sheets (224 x 165mm) printed on recto only and housed in original envelope with the title and imprint on the flap. Envelope soiled and with rumpling and short tears to edges, a line of silver tape to rear. Dedication leaf inscribed ?For Sydney Etherington, Patron of the ?musae?, in friendship, Laurence Dakin, London, 30-x-36? A scarce and ephemeral publication by the Nova Scotian expatriate poet Laurence Bradford Dakin (1904-1972), then living in London. Dakin was slightly notorious in his time for the poor quality of his verse (though John Masefield reportedly called one of his plays ?a work of genius?) and generally only saw print through vanity publications - including four volumes through Jack Kahane?s Obelisk Press. Copies of his work are understandably scarce, especially inscribed, and this particular text is located by Library Hub in the BL and Reading only.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Inscribed to Luis Marden by the author. "For Luis Marden in Friendship Laurence Dakin 1954" Beautiful free hand inscription from famous Canadian playwright otherwise unmarked hardcover.