The Walls Do Not Fall by H.D. [Hilda Doolittle] - 1944

London, et al: Oxford University Press, 1944. Hardcover. Near Fine. Blue cloth; 8vo; pp. 48. Spine tips and corners lightly bumped; boards just a little rubbed. Internally clean, with bookseller's ticket on rear paste-down (Witkowers of Hartford, Connecticut).

Oxford University Press,, 1944. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/no DJ. Previous owner's bookplate and signature on feps. dw a little grubby, faint trace of price in pencil at top right hand corner. Lower edge a bit crumpled.

London: Oxford University Press, 1944. Stiff card wrappers. Very Good. FIRST UK EDITION. Slim 8vo. Stiff card wrappers, with integral tan dust jacket, printed in black and brown and priced 3s. 6d. Pages printed on cream laid paper, watermarked "ADELPHIA". Toned and foxed, creasing and pushing to edges and extremities, pencil notes to rear panel. POI to inner front wrapper in black ink: "P. B. Hellings/ Jerusalem 1945," with bookseller pencil note on facing half-title: "Welsh poet", stab holes gaping at front hinge (as often seen), some foxing, spine cracked at first gathering, but binding firm. Very good. With an apt wartime association. The printed dedication reads: "To Bryher/ for Karnak 1923/ from London 1942". This copy belonged to the Swansea-born poet, Peter Bernard Hellings (1921-1994). Hellings joined the RAF in 1941 and served in Africa and the Middle East between 1942 and 1946, which corresponds with the PO inscription-location: "Jerusalem". Hellings, who went on to teach literature, was… Read More

New York: Oxford University Press, 1944. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Small ownership Signature of poet Samuel French Morse, tiny bookstore label, else fine in slightly toned else fine dust jacket.