The Earthly Paradise - The Newdigate Prize Poem 1958.
by STALLWORTHY, Jon
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About This Item
Privately printed, [Oxford]., 1958. First edition. Octavo. 13 pages. Wrappers. A sequence of five poems. The author's first book, as Newdigate Prize poems tend to be.Signed by the author inside the front cover; he has also made a crucial correction to the quotation from Milton on the front cover, repeated on the title-page. Laid in is a short Autograph Letter Signed by the author, dated 15 October 1966: about 70 words in which he mentions working with Herbert Davis on the Albion press in the Bodleian.Letter: single fold; very good. Book: covers very slightly spotted; near fine.
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- Peter Ellis bookseller (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- STALLWOR018774
- Title
- The Earthly Paradise - The Newdigate Prize Poem 1958.
- Author
- STALLWORTHY, Jon
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- Privately printed, [Oxford].
- Date Published
- 1958
- Keywords
- newdigate prize first book
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- Octavo
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- Fine
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- First Edition
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- Wrappers
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