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1st GB edn. 8vo. Original silver gilt and red lettered dark grey cloth (top edge dust stained, pastedowns and front free endpaper lightly spotted-otherwise VG), dustwrapper (covers heavily spotted, discloured at spine-in protective wrapper, not price clipped). Pp. 52 (no inscriptions).
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Like New in Like New jacket. First Edition, First Printing. Published by Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1965. Octavo. Book is like new. Spotting to top page ends. Dust jacket is like new. A lovely copy of this book of poetry from Dom Moraes. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.
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First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. Advance review copy. 8vo. pp. 52. Original publisher's grey cloth lettered silver and red on spine. Grey dust jacket lettered orange and grey on spine and upper cover. Authorisation for 'John Gawsworth to make any use he wishes of my poem "The General" in the volume John Nobody. ' Signed by Dom Moraes and dated 23-4-65. Contained in a loosely inserted handwritten envelope addressed to Jon Wynne-Tyson, Paddocks, Fontwell, Sussex, BN18 0TA with a later postmark. Publisher's advance copy slip for review loosely inserted stating the book will be published on 3rd June, 1965. A review of Moraes' Mrs Gandhi and his obituary in The Independent loosely inserted along with a Radio Times cutting featuring a programme about him introduced by Brian Patten and a photocopy of his entry in the Penguin Companion to Literature 1: British & Commonwealth Literature. Dom Moraes (1938-2004) Indian writer and poet won the Hawthornden Prize for his first collection. Jon Wynne-Tyson (1924-2020), author, Quaker, pacifist, vegetarian, animal rights campaigner and in 1954 founder of the independent publishing company Centaur Press which was based in Sussex. He became John Gawsworth's [born Terence Ian Fytton Armstrong] literary executor in 1970 but later handed it over to Javier Marias. Dust jacket faded and brown spotted on edges, otherwise very good. Very good in slightly marked dust jacket.