Peter Pears Preface (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 1st printing (1980). 27pp. Near Fine/Near Fine copy, now preserved in archival jacket protector.

xxxii, 384pp, colour and bw illustrations. 29x21, blue cloth, illustrated dw. Very good in sunned dw. Contributions by John and Myfanwy Piper among others.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. FIRST THUS. Slim 8vo. Original maroon cloth, spine lettered in gilt. In the original yellow typographical dust jacket: spine gently faded, wear to head of spine, light creasing to top edge. Near fine/ near fine Despite the front flap stating that "this is the first appearance in print of some late poems by Sylvia Townsend Warner, the distinguished poet and novelist, which were read by Sir Peter Pears in a BBC programme following her death in 1978," the collection had in fact first been issued two years earlier in a limited edition of 200 copies as Azrael & Other Poems. Russell & Lawrence Mitchell 35b.

First Edition. Fine copy in dust-wrapper.