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Smith, Stevie.
Harold's Leap.
Publisher: Chapman & Hall, London;
Date of Publication: 1950
Stock Code: 9786
FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. 85, [1]. Illustrated throughout with expressive line drawings by Smith. Bound in crimson red publishers’ cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the unclipped lemon illustrated dust-jacket. Contents crisp, tight and free of annotations of inscriptions. Dust-jacket is spine sunned with tiny chips to spine tips and corners. Light toning to back panel. Unclipped. A Near Fine copy in a Very Good dust-jacket. Fourth collection of poetry and drawings from Stevie Smith. Smith’s disquieting, idiosyncratic, and uncompromising writing style earned her admirers in Seamus Heaney, Andrew Motion and Sylvia Plath, with Plath penning fan mail to Smith in 1962, in which she described herself as "a desperate Smith-addict." £65.00