Ruth Pitter: Homage to a Poet

RUSSELL, Arthur (editor); CECIL, David (introduction)

Published by rapp + whiting, London, 1969

About this Item

FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. 128 + Joan Hassall's specially designed title page device and Norman Garner's portrait. Cream and blue flecked linen boards, gilt-stamped lettering to spine and upper board. Clean, tight and bright. In the original dust jacket: a little creasing and wear to edges, rear panel scuffed and marked. Still, a pleasing copy of an attractive edition. Near fine/ very good This Festschrift features contributions from Joyce Grenfell, Thom Gunn, L. P. Hartley and Dame Ngaio Marsh, amongst others. British poet, Ruth Pitter (1897-1992) was a perpetual prize-winner across her writing life: from the Hawthornden Prize in 1937 for A Trophy of Arms: Poems 1926 1935 through the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 1955 (a first for a woman) to her appointment as CBE in 1979 for her contributions to English literature, she was justly honoured. As Gunn put it: "Ruth Pitter is the most modest of poets, slipping us her riches as if they were everyday currency" (p.64). Seller Inventory # 2020

Bibliographic Details

Title: Ruth Pitter: Homage to a Poet

Publisher: rapp + whiting, London

Publication Date: 1969

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

Edition: 1st Edition