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Item Description

FIRST EDITION. 8vo. 8.5 x 7 inches. 106 pp. Bound in original yellow decorated cloth, gilt, in price clipped pictorial dust wrapper, with a little foxing on rear wrapper. Deckled lower edge. Boards and flyleaves foxed; otherwise a very good copy with a clean interior. Decorated by title page vignette. First edition of new long poem by Walter de la Mare (1873-1956, on the theme of time. Wrapper design taken from title page vignette engraved on wood by Joan Hassall (1906-88).