Author: WOLFE,HUMBERT
Title: Dialogues and Monologues
Description: London: Victor Gollancz, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 5¾" - 6'' Tall. This is a Very Good Copy of this book in Publisher's beige boards with paper title label to spine.No Dust-Jacket.Nice copy with one previous ownership bookplate to the front pastedown.Lovely firm binding with no hinge weakness and their is no leaning or rolling to spine.Humbert Wolfe was born in Milan, Italy, in 1885. When he was a child his family moved to Bradford. After gaining a first at Oxford University he worked for the Civil Service.Wolfe began publishing poetry in the 1920s and his Requiem (1927) on the First World War was highly acclaimed. On the death of Robert Bridges in 1930, Wolfe was one of the favourites to become Poet Laureate.On the outbreak of the Second World War Wolfe was one of those responsible for drawing up a list of writers who could better serve as propagandists than in the British Army. Humbert Wolfe died in 1940.8vo 278pp First Edition. Very Good .

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