Rowbotham Signed (2 results)

Original Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued. Steven Pickles (front cover colour illustration) (illustrator). First Edition. Author's first book. ***First impression of the true first edition SIGNED and dated by the author on the title-page: 'Colin Rowbotham, March 1988'. ***Front cover colour illustration by Steven Pickles. ***Very good in colour illustrated card wrappers. Dark red front and rear free endpapers. Light crease to top corner of front wrapper and first few pages. Very small surface splash mark to fore-edge of text-block. Pages clean. Spine tight. Spine and rear and front wrappers bright. ***210mm x 148mm. 46 pages. ***Poems: The Christening Gifts, Flowers and Thorns, Moonfall, Home Time, Pole Hill, Enigma, Lost Connection, The Family Late Summer, Alphabeast, Memories?, Old Story, Sightings, Time Trains, Missing Locks, Grannie and Grandpa Struldbrugs', To Maggie, Homecoming, Tokens, Lit Up, The Boy and Pandora, Ken, A Year and Others. ***'Colin Rowbotham's poems use memory to confront the reader with the experiences of a life. They are not sentimental because they preserve the pains and insecurities as well as the delights and curiosities. They have been rigorously composed and are often disconcerting to read, most of all in the final sequence 'A Year and Others' which embodies the tragic experience of the loss of a child.' (Quote from rear wrapper blurb). ***First impression of the true first edition signed by the poet. ***Of interest to collectors of twentieth century poetry small press first edition titles. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 250mm. Pp.ix.134. dustjacket price cut. Flat-signed on half title-page by both authors. Signed by Author(s).