Solitude. A Poem.

First edition. 8vo. Pp. 56, [5, adverts]. Publisher's rust coloured cloth boards, lettered and ruled in gilt to spine. First trade edition, on laid paper, following a limited run of 100 signed copies.

Sans the fragile, cream dustwrapper. Boards dented in places to upper edges, textblock margins lightly dust soiled, some spotting to endpapers, else Fine.

A long poem in the classical tradition, exploring the contrast between Nature and books and Nature and the Christian God. Written in the solitude of Sissinghurst and not bound until 7 years after printing, according to an extant ALS from the author to Miss Margaret Smyth, M.B.E., and dated 1945.

[Woolmer 438b; A Bookman's Catalogue Vol. 2 M-End: The Norman Colbeck Collection of Nineteenth-Century and Edwardian Poetry and Belles Lettres]