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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Library sticker on front cover. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,450grams, ISBN:

First Edition. Hardcover. 245pp. Index. Few lght spots of foxing to fore-edge, V.g. in slightly tanned dustwrapper slightly rubbed with a couple of minor nicks head of spine.

5-1/2" x 8-1/8", 245pp incl. front matter. Sewn binding in blue-black cloth-covered boards. Boards are lightly faded at edges, and corners as well as both ends of spine are gently bumped and worn. Jacket is age discoloured and edge worn, with several small chips at the top and base of spine and adjacent folds. Jacket is intact, with previous bookseller's knock-down price (9/-) written in pencil over printed 18s price. Jacket is now protected in mylar. Binding is square and tight. Minor moisture spotting, age discoloration on top edge of book block. Pages are clean and bright and unmarked.

245pp. Black cloth boards w gilt title to spine in dust-jacket w v minor foxing to top RH corner of front panel and v light fading to edges but otherwise clean and intact. Interior very good. Tight and bright, a very nice copy.

London, Faber, 1957. Octavo; cloth; an excellent copy in the slightly rubbed dustwrapper a little sunned about the spine. With a contemporary review (from the New Statesman) loosely inserted.

12mo. 245 pp. Cloth binding in unclipped dustwrapper, very good condition. (80543).

HB. DW. Book & DW VG.

FIRST EDITION, pp. 245, crown 8vo, original black cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt, a few very faint spots to edges, faint partial browning and a few spots to free endpapers, dustjacket a little browned and frayed, good. Inscribed by the author on the title-page: 'For John Baxter, from George Barker'. Laid in is a 2pp. typed letter from the author to a 'Maureen Ebbie', consenting for her to use 'Italian Letter' in her 'New Poems' anthology but not able to provide a copy as he does not have one (likewise, he mentions, another poem previously sent, which 'if they do not propose to use it [.] I should like returned to me'; on the following page he offers a short autobiographical summary, describing his route from Marlborough Road School to Tokyo then America and a period of extensive travel following his marriage, up to the present where he lives 'in a woodcutters cottage and intend[s] to stay there for ever' (these details putting it roughly contemporary with the book). A notable aspect of this collection is the stated omission of his 'True Confession', which, a note at the end of the Contents states, 'Mr. Barker wished to include in this volume, [but which] has been omitted at the publishers' request'. Eliot's distaste for this work, published by Fore in 1950, is known.

INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the endpaper: "for Bill Meredith/Summer 1959/George Barker." Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper