NOT LOVE PERHAPS.

TESSIMOND. A S J

ISBN 10: 0903413183 / ISBN 13: 9780903413183

Published by Autolycus,, London,, 1978

About this Item

First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. pp 52.Original publisher's blue printed card covers. 52 pages. Selected and Introduced by Hubert Nicholson. Ownership signature of Tessimond's friend John Yeoman who had been married to the cartoonist 'Anton.' Yeoman notes that he has loosely inserted a sined post card from Tessimond (1902 --1962) from France in 1951 mentioning Berck Plage and St Germain de Pres. Anything in T's hand is quite rare. Light wear, slightly shaken (ie pages slightly loose but complete) else near very good.

Seller Inventory # C89441

Bibliographic Details

• Title: NOT LOVE PERHAPS.
• Publisher: Autolycus,, London,
• Publication Date: 1978
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0903413183
• ISBN 13: 9780903413183
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Good

About this title

Synopsis

This selection of just over sixty poems made by his friend and literary executor, Hubert Nicholson, contains the best of A. S. J. Tessimond. And the best of A. S. J. Tessimond is good. Read, for example, "The man in the bowler hat", "Black Monday Lovesong", "Song in a saloon bar", "Cats 11" and, perhaps, best of all, "Not Love Perhaps" itself. In their own way they are perfect.

About the Author

A.S.J. Tessimond (1902-1962) was born in Birkenhead. His education was at Charterhouse, before running away at sixteen, and Liverpool University. On coming to London he worked in bookshops for a time before becoming a copywriter. After avoiding military service in World War II, he later discovered he was unfit for service. An eccentric, he has been well described as a night-lifer, loner and flaneur. He loved women, was always falling in love, but never married. In later life, he became manic-depressive which neither psycho-analysis nor electric shock therapy could cure. He died of brain haemorrhage in his Chelsea flat. Three volumes of verse were published during his lifetime: 'The Walls of Glass' (1934), 'Voices in a Giant City' (1947) and 'Selection' (1958). He was a minor poet but a distinctive one