Price: £100
Subject: Literature
Published Date: 1944
Stock Number: 72168
(Your basket is currently empty)An Essay with Specimen Translations in Verse [Second printing].
Description: frontispiece portrait of the author by his father, Muirhead Bone, pp. 79, crown 8vo, original cream boards with a lattice design in blind to both boards, backstrip lettered in black, edges untrimmed with some light spotting, original tissue jacket, very goodPublication Details: Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1944
Notes: The second printing of these posthumously published translations, this copy with a note on the flyleaf marks this as 'Gertrude's copy' - i.e., Gavin Bone's mother, her son having died from tuberculosis the year before this volume was published. Laid into this copy is a sheet with an 8-line poem signed 'Gavin' - juvenile work with a little charm, wishing the recipient 'a better time at forty eight/ Than you've been having these few weeks of late' - the closing references to drawing and painting castles in Spain suggests, though, that the recipient of the verse may in fact have been his father, ...more
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