Poems by Maitland Radford. With a Memoir by Some of His Friends.

MAITLAND RADFORD.

Published by George Allen & Unwin Ltd., London, 1945

About this Item

First edition, limited to 500 numbered copies (this being #408). Slim 8vo. 45pp. Blue cloth lettered in gold at the spine and upper board. Photographic portrait frontispiece. A tiny area of miscellaneous staining to the base of the rear board, else a fine copy in very good non-price-clipped dust wrapper, faded at the spine panel, with a touch of further fading to the margins of the front and rear panels, two or three tiny edge-nicks and a small area of soiling to the rear panel. An introduction by C.E.Wheeler and tributes by David Garnett, Sydney Wood, Arnold Bax, Clifford Bax, Eleanor Farjeon and others precedes twenty-eight poems including a number of Great War verses. This would appear to be the first printing of any of Radford's poems. Not noted by Reilly. Maitland Radford was born in July 1884, his parents, Dollie and Ernest Radford, were distinguished writers of the late Victorian and Edwardian years but Maitland decided to study medicine. Upon the outbreak of the Great War he joined the R.A.M.C. and was in France by August 1914 in charge of the Medical Division of No. 3 General Hospital. During the Second World War he was the M.O.H. of a London borough during the Blitz. He died in 1944. Seller Inventory # ARC94041

Bibliographic Details

Title: Poems by Maitland Radford. With a Memoir by ...

Publisher: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., London

Publication Date: 1945

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

Edition: 1st Edition