Buy this book on-line DAVID RAIKES : The Poems of David Raikes. With a lengthy introduction by Charles WrinchFantasy Press, Oxford, 1954
First Edition (first printing). 8vo. vii, 122pp. Purple cloth lettered in gold at the spine. With a tipped-in photographic portrait frontispiece. A tiny bump to the tip of one corner, and a touch of very light toning to the free endpapers. Very good indeed in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, with a little toning to the spine panel, a trace of light marking and wear, and the residue from a small sticker to the base of the rear panel. The author's most uncommon posthumously published first book, containing fifty-three poems, all of them hitherto unprinted, preceded by a forty-three page introduction. Poems by a British airman, shot-down and killed over the Italian front in April 1945 (Raikes' body and those of his three crewmates was finally discovered nearly seventy years after the loss of their bomber, and laid to rest at a Commonwealth war cemetery in the city of Padua in 2013).. Book. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Very Good 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 DAVID RAIKES : The Poems of David Raikes. With a lengthy introduction by Charles Wrinch. 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 out of print books, livres d'occasion, used books, livres illustrées and libri rari. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |