Book Details
| Author: | Dawnay, Guy: |
| Title: | Nigella. |
| Published: | London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1919. |
| Classification: | Catalogue 17 - Poetry |
| Description: | First edition. vi, 39 pp. Tissue-guarded frontispiece - illustration of signpost. Contents: To C.; 1914 February - Solitude (Before Dawn); June - Betrothal (Daybreak, Sunrise); July - Epithalamy (Morning, Noon); August - War (Shadow, Storm, Twilight); October - Death (Night, A Friend's Word), Epilogue - E Tenebris. Guy Dawnay's first book - a collection of 11 poems, some of which deal with the outbreak of the First World War. A military man who served with the Cold Stream Guards in the Boer War, who by the end of his military career, had rose to the rank of Major General. Light browning on free eps. Binding sound. Dark green cloth boards with gilt lettering on front board. Gilt vignette of frontispiece on front board. Spine and strip of cloth adjacent to spine on rear board faded. Overall condition VG. Very scarce. |
| Book Number: | #7785 |
| Price: | € 400.00 |
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