A SUMMER'S FANCY

by Blunden, Edmund

First edition

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Book description: Los Angeles: The Beaumont Press, 1930. Hardcover First edition 54 pp. Illustrated by Randolph Schwabe. Number 52 of 80 (total edition of 405) signed by author and artist, in vellum-backed decorated boards. Board edges worn at tips and toned, bookseller ticket (Hunters Hollywood) on back end paper; glue (probably binders glue) along top edge pages sticky but loose; signatures separated between pp. 24-25, with excess glue. This most desirable issue quite scarce. The twenty-fifth of twenty-six books of the press, which folded due to the depression economics in 1931. Cyril Beaumont was a noted Charing Cross bookseller who printed mostly contemporary writers. Blunden was a close friend of Sassoon and like him was known for his war poetry. Later in his life he served as Professor of Poetry at Oxford.

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