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Brown wrappers, printed paper label. Edition limited to 165 numbered copies; loosely inserted two items of Tragara Press ephemera, Some Recent and Forthcoming Publications of the Tragara Press, Edinburgh (single sheet, folded, 1985), and Benefit from Your Woodlands (a promotional notice for Broadview Woodland Services, Highampton, Devon; single sheet, folded, 1985?), the latter not in Halliwell. Together with printer's corrected proofs, eight leaves, printed rectos only (title-page, pp. 3, 32-7 only), loose in light green wrappers, printed paper label, inscribed by Alan Anderson "Corrected proofs" and with his corrections on pp. 3 and 34. Edward Thomas married Helen Noble in 1899. She outlived him by 50 years, dying in 1967. "This small selection from the hundreds of letters between Helen and Edward Thomas," writes R. George Thomas, "is a birthday tribute to the poet's only surviving daughter, Myfanwy." The correspondence began in 1896. "I will write when I can," reads his last letter, 7 February 1917, "but if we get busy and I can't write more than once a week, don't worry. There are hundreds of chances, remember. I am all and always your Edwy." He died on 9 April, at the Battle of Arras. Seller Inventory # 32M100508
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