BUXTON, Rupert; BRYANT, Arthur (editor).
Rupert Buxton.
Rupert Buxton.
A memoir to which are attached some poems written in his boyhood.
Stock Code 124398
Cambridge, Printed for Private Circulation, University Press Cambridge, 1926.
presentation copy inscribed by Rupert Buxton's mother
An inscribed presentation copy of this privately published posthumous collection of poems by Rupert Buxton (1900-1921), with a memoir of his life by his friend the historian Arthur Bryant (1899-1985), who knew Buxton from their days at Harrow School.Our copy is inscribed by Buxton's mother to his cousin 'Christian in memory of Rupert from Aunt Annie [Lady Anna Louisa Matilda Buxton, née O'Rorke], Dec. 1926'.
Buxton tragically drowned with his close-friend Michael Llewelyn Davies (1900-1921), the foster son of J.M. Barrie and one of the original inspirations for Peter Pan and the 'Lost Boys', whilst swimming near Oxford in 1921.
First edition, inscribed presentation copy; 8vo (19.5 x 15 cm); inscribed in pen to front free endpaper, photographic portrait frontispiece, occasional spotting; publisher's blue cloth, upper-cover lettered in gilt within double-rule border,spine and rear cover slightly faded, very good; 63, [1]pp.
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