COLLECTED POEMS.

First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 99. Original publisher's red cloth lettered gilt at the spine. Signed presentation from the author in 1956 to Neville Braybrooke 'in friendship.' Neville Braybrooke(1923-2001) man of letters: poet, novelist, essayist, biographer of Olivia Manning, editor of literary periodicals (The Wind and the Rain) One of 110 signed copies this numbered 27. loosely inserted a two page handwritten signed letter from Bonacina in Hampstead dated 1968 to Neville Braybrook closely written with news and discussion of German Catholicism et cetera also Rusty inserted a press cutting from The Tablet in 1969 with a good obituary of Bonacina. Endpapers slightly tannned otherwise very good indeed in somewhat but complete dustwrapper with tanning and marks. No other inscriptions, not price-clipped.