Author: RONALD BOTTRALL.
Title: The Turning Path. With a two-page introduction in the form of a letter by Robert Graves. (INSCRIBED)
Description: Arthur Barker Ltd. London, 1939. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). First Edition (first printing). A presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "To E.M.W.Yillyard, with kindest regards from Ronald Bottrall. 21/v/39". (Tillyard was Bottrall's Cambridge tutor; he graduated with a first alongside Humphrey Jennings, Alastair Cooke, T.H.White and William Empson). Crown 8vo. 42pp. Quarter cloth with paper-covered sides, lettered in gold at the spine. The backstrip ends and corner tips lightly rubbed, the free endpapers browned and with some spotting to the top edge, occasionally encroaching to the extreme upper margins of the text leaves. Name and date of a subsequent owner neatly inked to the head of the front free endpaper. A very good copy, lacking the unprinted tissue protector. The author's third collection of verse: twenty-two poems, with a printed dedication to Laura Riding. Very Good/No Jacket.

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