Time Lags Abed (2 results)

First edition. Octavo. pp [12]. Patterned card wrappers. A sonnet by a New Zealand-born poet.One of fifty copies numbered and signed by the author, this being fellow poet Laurence Binyon's copy: Cresswell has written Binyon's name on the limitation page.Staples rusted. Spine a bit darkened. Very good.…

One of 50 copies. 6 leaves only, stapled into original unlettered decorative wrappers, [printed for the author by the Columbia Press, London) With the poet's inscription to Eddie Marsh on the colophon leaf "For Eddie". A single sonnet by New Zealand born poet, famous for his part in a gay blackmail scandal when the Mayor of Wanganui attempted to murder him. OCLC reports five copies, only one of which is in the US - at Delaware. Marsh played his usual role of patron to Cresswell: Hassall makes the (possibly rather coded) note that he "was introducing Cresswell to literary London and as a companion was finding refreshment in his forthright and unconventional cast of mind".…