Cage & Wing

First edition. Sm. 8vo. [18]pp. Sewn, printed grey wraps.

A couple of tiny closed tears at head and base of spine, else Near Fine. Pencil inscription reads "From Joan Bennett's Library" to front free endpaper. As a fellow don at Girton College, Cambridge, Bennett (1896–1986), wrote one of the first critical studies of Virginia Woolf and was among a "constellation of critics" called by the defence in the Lady Chatterley Trial of D. H. Lawrence.

Winner of the Seatonian Prize for 1946 on the subject "Freedom to Worship". Lengthy poem. An English writer, poet and academic, Frank Samuel Herbert Kendon turned to prose later in life, after beginning his publishing career as a poet in the 1920s. A Fellow at his alma mater, St John's College, Cambridge, since 1948, Kendon worked for Cambridge University Press from the mid-30s to the mid-50s.