Wild Geese.

Hill (Brian)

Wild Geese.

Description: FIRST EDITION, vignette to title-page and 8 tail-pieces, pp. [16], crown 8vo, original stapled green wrappers, illustration to front, letter to the author tipped to inside front-cover (see below), very good

Publication Details: Loughton: The Author, 1923

Notes: The letter to the author tipped to the inside cover is from Reggie Turner, the author and friend of Oscar Wilde, writing from Florence; it offers extensive praise for the poet's work, saying that he was 'very pleased and gratified when I received your little book of poems and much flattered at your kind thought of me, but I did not suspect that I was to have such pleasure in the reading of them'. They were, he continues, 'such a delight - [...] after the tortuous and tortured verses of the likes which most young poets pour forth', in contrast to which Hill's 'lyrics [...] flow along in the gre...more

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Price: £2,000

Subject: Modern First Edition

Published Date: 1923

Stock Number: 74584

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