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8vo. 5.75 x 8.75 inches. 132 pp. Bound in original green cloth, in pictorial dust wrapper, which has sunned spine and a few upper edge chips; otherwise a very good copy. Decorated by title page vignette. Eighty four poems selected from his previous six collections of 1946, 1948, 1952, 1955, 1960 and 1964, amounting to just over half of his published poems. Patric Dickinson (1914-94) was a poet, playwright and translator from the classics, who worked for the BBC, 1942-48.