Poems. [Fourth edition, augmented and revised, and with a new introduction]

Top edge gilt. Dustwrapper slightly darkened and rubbed at spine, free endpapers partially embrowned, traces of tape-marks on pastedowns. Inscribed by the author, "Mrs & Miss Stanley-Wrench from John Gawsworth". Mrs Stanley Wrench, alias Mollie Stanley-Wrench (née Violet Louisa Gibbs, 1880-1966), was a prolific journalist, novelist and cookery writer, and editor of The Lyceum Book of Verse (1931); her only child, Margaret (1916-1974), won the Newdigate Prize in 1937 for a poem on "The Man in the Moon". First edition published 1933 - uniform with A.E. Housman's A Shropshire Lad.