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Davies, W. H.
A Poet's Calendar.
Publisher: Jonathan Cape, London;
Date of Publication: 1927
Stock Code: 12786
Signed limited edition, number 25 of 125 copies. Octavo, pp. 61, [3]. Vignette to title page and 24 further decorations throughout by Dora M. Batty. Publishers’ maroon quarter cloth with gilt titles to spine and decorative red and pink paper-covered boards; top edge gilt and others untrimmed. In printed cream dust-jacket with flaming torch motif to upper panel and publisher’s catalogue to lower panel. A near fine copy in a very good dust-jacket. Clean and bright, with printed bookplate for a John Lowe to front paste-down. Light corner crease to rear free end-paper, many leaves unopened. Author’s signature and copy number in ink to verso half-title. Dust-jacket a little toned especially to spine and edges. Collection of twenty-four poems, two for each month of the year, published as a companion volume to “A Poet’s Alphabet”. £75.00