RUTH PITTER - End of Drought

London England, Barrie & Jenkins, 1975. First Edition, Binding: Cloth, Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 0214200868 Harback Hardback. Price crossed out in pen to inside D/J. flap. This book is Ruth Pitter's first colletion of poems to be published since Poems 1926-1966. It contains several of what she calls her 'profane' poems and many which, as Lord David Cecil wrote of an earlier collection, combine 'an exquisite sensibility to the natural world with a power of intense spiritual vision.' 47 pp.