Buy this book on-line W.J.TURNER : The Hunter and Other PoemsSidgwick & Jackson, London, 1916
First Edition (first printing). Slim 8vo. 76pp + [iii] publisher's advertisements at the rear. Brown cloth with a tanned and slightly chipped paper spine label. Backstrip ends and corner tips very gently bruised. Former owner bookplate to the front pastedown. A very good copy. No dust wrapper. Twenty-six poems, the author's first collection of verse, including a number of Great War poems. Walter James Turner was born in Melbourne in 1884 and moved to England when he was twenty-three to pursue a career as a writer. He befriended Siegfried Sassoon, Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville-West and Lady Ottoline Morrell (a caricature of her in his book 'The Aesthetes' ended that friendship). He served as a Lieutenant in Royal Garrison Artillery, anti-aircraft section between 1916-18. Reilly p.319.. Book. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: No Jacket Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of W.J.TURNER : The Hunter and Other Poems. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including atlases, collectables, libri antichi, livres rares and rare books. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |