Save The Stour and Other Poems [Double Signed?]
Donaldson, Christopher [Illustrations by John Ward 1917-2007]
(Book #ID 79909)
Published by The Scops Press [Robert Jackson] Canterbury First Edition 1974. 1974.
First edition in publisher's original plain grey card wrap covers [softback]. 8vo. 8'' x 6''. Contains 48 printed pages of text with monochrome illustrations throughout. Robert Jackson the 'Scops Press' was a local schoolteacher and an amateur 'Sunday Printer' who lived and worked in the Stour Valley for many years. Fine condition book in Very Good condition dust wrapper which has sun faded and has light foxing to the edges, dent mark to the rear cover. The last leaf has a drawing of a bunch of wild flowers above which are the names of Christopher Donaldson and John Ward, being that they are in the small fountain as the illustrations it is difficult to determine if they are printed or signed names, placed opposite these is a plain sheet of blue paper, the same blue as an unfaded dust wrapper which can be seen by the inner flaps. Member of the P.B.F.A.
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