Bradford: Beamsley House, 1931.
Price: $300.00
Hardcover. First edition. Decorations (mostly vignettes of nude fairies) by Marygold Cecilia Crowe. Thin octavo. 45, [3]pp. Papercovered boards with printed label. A few spots on the boards, foxing on endpapers, very good in lightly toned near fine printed wraparound band. Advance Review Copy with slip laid in. One of 250 copies. Vickridge is a mostly forgotten Yorkshire poet, who first gained success during WWI, (where one of her poems was chosen for publication over Wilfred Owens' "Song of Songs". She printed her own books and those of others from the attic of her family home, as well as *The Jongleur. A Quarterly Magazine of Verse*. Her work was admired and praised by J.B. Priestley, Wilfred Gibson, and Agatha Christie. Includes the poem, "The Lesbian" about Sappho.
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