Postscripts by Giles Dixey (2 results)
Language: English
Published by H. G. Dixey ( Hand printed by the Author), Oxford, 1947
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: beckfarmbooks, HOLT, Norfolk, United Kingdombeckfarmbooks
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Slim 8vo. 27pp. Number 43 OF 85 Copies. Bound in sewn printed wrappers with title to the upper cover with design.
More imagesPublished by H. G. Dixey, Oxford, 1947
- Softcover
- Signed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United KingdomRooke Books PBFA
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Add to basketPaperback. Condition: Near Fine. A very scarce three-volume set of Giles Dixey"s hand-printed poetry pamphlets, each a limitation and signed with the author"s presentation inscription. In the publisher's original paper wraps.A three-volume collection of privately printed poetry pamphlets by Harold Giles Dixey, each produced in v…ery small limitations and hand-printed by the author in Oxford in 1947. All three volumes are signed and inscribed by Dixey: "C. E. K from H G D. "63."Compromising: Ourselves a Dream: Verses (1947). Limited edition, copy number 48 of 83. Contains poems including "Western Desert," "Cookhouse Reverie," "No Mortal Business," and "Old Soldier," reflecting wartime memory and personal reflection.Schoolroom Echoes (1947). Limited edition, copy number 76 of 93. Features poems such as "Phaethon," "To His Parents," "Slug-abed," and "Echoes of Anacreon," drawing on classical subjects, school-life humour, and light verse.Postscripts (1947). Limited edition, copy number 83 of 85. Includes "The Schooner," "Dragon School Play, 1940," "A Walk to Nether Stowey," "A Boy to Bellerophon," and "Flame-flower," among others. In the publisher's original paper wraps. Externally, lovely. Very slight shelf wear to extremities resulting in one or two minor creases. Author's inscription to half-title. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with one or two spots to first and last few leaves. Near Fine. None (illustrator). signed by author. book.
