Hal Porter from Gavin de Lacy Rare & Secondhand Bookseller

Octavo, pen drawings by Porter, light blue endpapers, original black cloth with pictorial dustwrapper, the cartoonist Les Tanner's copy with his signature. First edition. Inscribed and signed by Porter for Tanner: 'Les — I loveya. HP.'

Demy octavo, original oatmeal cloth with crisp colour silk-screen printed dustwrapper, John Gawsworth's copy with his 'Realm of Redonda' bookplate. First edition. An excellent association copy of Porter's first volume of poetry, inscribed by Porter in the Surrey Hotel (London) for the poet John Gawsworth. Porter writes about drinking at the Surrey and Gawsworth in his third volume of autobiography The… Read more about this item