Donald Davie - The Shires

London, Routledge and Kegan Paul , 1974. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this lovely collection of poems by Donald Davie. An excellent review copy. Donald Davie was the author of many poems of philosophical and abstract themes and highly evocative of various landscapes. An English Movement poet. This collection of 'mostly amiable and nostalgic poems' explores the author's sense of Englishness when living abroad, drawing on personal memoirs. Each poem is dedicated to a different English county. With eighteen illustrations in text complementing the text in reflect the author's feelings about English counties. With the unclipped dust wrapper.The review copy, with the publisher's compliments slip loosely inserted. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally excellent with only minor shelf wear and a slight bumping to the head and tail of the spine and the extremities. Loosely inserted, the publisher's compliments slip for review. The dust wrapper is unclipped and lovely with only minor shelf wear and a touch of tone ageing, as usual and a faint minor handling mark to the rear wrap. Internally, firmly bound. The pages are bright and clean. Illustrated with eighteen illustrations in text. Near Fine . Ill.: Not Stated. Near Fine/Near Fine.

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