The Merry Ghosts - Poems.
by WALLER, John
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- first
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About This Item
Editions Poetry London, London., 1946. First edition. Octavo. 53 pages. Frontispiece portrait. Thirty-five poems written on board ship or in various parts of the Middle East, 1941-1943.Presentation copy from the author, inscribed on the front free endpaper to a fellow poet:''To Francis Scarfe from John Waller. December 1946.'' He has also made a small, but important, change to the poem ''Meeting at a Play'' on page 22, and another, slightly less so, to ''Curtain'' on page 37.Very good indeed in very good, spotted, faded and slightly stained dustwrapper.
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- Peter Ellis bookseller (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- WALLERJO011379
- Title
- The Merry Ghosts - Poems.
- Author
- WALLER, John
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- Editions Poetry London, London.
- Date Published
- 1946
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