Fifty-one poems : hitherto unpublished in book form / With wood engravings by Joan Hassall

London : Jonathan Cape, 1947. 2nd edition. Hardcover. Near fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description; 63 pp. : illus ; 21 cm. Contents; Master of the coppice -- The yellow-hammer -- The beautiful house -- The mountain tree -- Spring and a dead leaf -- Bounty -- The dance -- The great wind -- Two faiths -- Nature's dogmatists -- Beauty and terror -- Night in the open air -- Alder buds -- Heavy silence -- Desolation -- Vigil -- Joy -- Sallow-catkins -- Hazel buds -- On the hills -- Harvest song -- Buds -- The wood-witch -- Lilies in the valleys -- Reflections -- Summer remembered -- To-day -- The beacon -- Isolde -- Apple-blow -- Absence -- New Year's Day -- Autumn, 1914 -- A lover of roses -- Night -- Foreboding -- Sunset -- Magic -- To G.D.M. -- Christina Rossetti -- My love is in the mountains -- Hill pastures -- On the wild hill -- The lost orchard -- The grape-blue hills -- Very early -- An estray -- The goblet -- The flockmaster -- The poplar tree -- Praise. Subjects; Hassall, Joan 1906-1988. English poetry 20th century.