Deaths and Entrances

First edition. 16mo. 66pp. Publisher's orange cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. Fore and lower edges uncut. Orange dustwrapper printed in black (3s. 6d. net price printed on the front flap). 'Complimentary copy/Not For Sale' pinprick perforation to final blank. 1/3,000 copies printed.

Lightly soiled dustwrapper darkened at spine, 1" closed tear to lower panel, rubbed at edges, else Fine.

Collection inspired by the travails of the Second World War containing some of the author's most celebrated and widely anthologised poems including "A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London", "Poem in October", "In My Craft or Sullen Art", and "Fern Hill".

[Rolph B10; Connolly 100, 96a]