TRIBUTE to Walter de la Mare, on his Seventy-fifth Birthday.

(Freedman.)

TRIBUTE to Walter de la Mare, on his Seventy-fifth Birthday.

Description: FIRST EDITION, coloured lithographic frontispiece by Barnett Freedman (repeated on the dustjacket), portraits of de la Mare by William Rothenstein, Herbert Lambert and Colin de la Mare, reproduction of a cartoon by Max Beerbohm and a one-page facsimile of manuscript, pp. 195, 8vo, original blue buckram with de la Mare's monogram in blind to upper board, backstrip lettered in gilt partly on a pink ground with slight lean to spine, t.e.g., Barnett Freedman dustjacket with gentle fading to backstrip panel, some chipping and rubbing to extremities, good

Publication Details: Faber and Faber, 1948

Notes: The copy of Marie Carmichael Stopes, poet and birth control advocate, who makes a contribution in the former capacity on p. 123. She has signed her contribution and made a manuscript correction, also signing the flyleaf with the note 'Presented by Faber & Faber'.

Bibliography: (Clark p.55/17)