Home Town Elegy de Fraser, G.S - 1944

Editions Poetry London, 1944. Hardcover. Good. 1944. First Edition. 44 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Pages are lightly tanned, but text remains clear. Binding is firm. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper. Boards and spine have minimal shelf-wear. Light sunning to edges, heavier to spine ends.

Editions Poetry London, 1944. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A very good- copy with spine and edges of covers sunned and faded; slight rubbing and browning to covers (cloth; chiefly at edges); slight internal uniform browning (chiefly to edges). 44 pages. Contains 43 poems in all (including 'elegies' for various persons and subjects, plus references to fellow poets Hugh McDiarmid and William Butler Yeats). Interesting wartime production; one of an unspecified number of copies printed by The Shenval Press.

London: Editions Poetry London/Nicholson & Watson, 1944. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Light green cloth, lettered on spine panel. Spine cloth tanned, otherwise only slight wear, interior a bit toned by age. Former owner's signature/date on front flyleaf. 44 pp..

Editions Poetry, 1944. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 44 pages. The author was a Scottish soldier stationed in Eritrea, in Africa, during the Second World War. Fraser's second book. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a very good dust jacket with a few edge tears and some chipping to the spien ends.

London: Editions Poetry. 1944. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Good Dustjacket - now protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. Dust jacket is a little grubby and edgeworn. 44 pages. The second book of poetry by this eminent British poet, journalist, critic and academic. Written while he was serving with the British army in Eritrea. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

London: PL Nicholson and Watson, 1944. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. London, PL Nicholson and Watson, 1944. Octavo; cloth slightly sunned; two top corners a little bumped; an excellent copy with the dustwrapper a little sunned, rubbed, chipped and torn with minor loss.

Editions Poetry London., 1944. First edition. Octavo. 44 pages. The author's first collection. Forty-one poems. Near fine in very good indeed dustwrapper very slightly chipped at the edges.

London: Nicholson & Watson, 1944. 44 pages in very good, clean condition; slightly yellowed. Green cloth with gilt titles on the spine. Spine faded. Small stain on the upper cover. Light wear on corners and edges. VG-. Hard Cover. VG-.