Product Description
Hardcover, NO DUSTJACKET , in slate grey boards, with titles in gilt to front cover and spine. Split beginning at upper ends of front gutter.
Publisher: Gerald Howe Ltd. The Poetry Bookshop, London, 1934, first edition .
Rough cut pages., occasional dogears on some corners. 212pp. Anthology of poetry, with poems by Richard Aldington, W H Auden, George Barker,Ronald Bottrall, Roy Campbell, Walter de la Mare, T S Elliot, William Empson, David Gascoyne, Oliver Gogarty, Richard Goodman, F R Higgins, Cecil Day Lewis, Francis Macnamara, Charles Madge, Charlotte Mew, Susan Miles, Harold Monro, Edwin Muir, Frank O'Connor, Sitwells, Yeats, Sassoon, Spender et al.
Small handwritten name in pencil - David Brynley / Corfe Castle -on inside front cover, otherwise unmarked.
Norman Notley and David Brynley moved to Corfe Castle in 1923 and lived openly as a couple, despite homosexuality being illegal at the time.The two men were successful musicians who sang together in Britain and the United States and they had many friends in the art world.