SPENDER, Stephen.
Poem.
Poem.
Stock Code 106652
Bryn Mawr, Privately printed by Frederic Prokosch, xmas 1934.
Frederic Prokosch's copy
Prokosch's own copy of one of his 'Butterfly Books', including an original hand-coloured drawing signed by him in pencil and mounted as a frontispiece.According to Barker the imprint is genuine with regard to date and place, identified as being from Group I (printed in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania). In the inscription Prokosch refers to 'MS poem from the author enclosed', which is not present.
Poem was first printed in the Spectator on 23 November 1934, and reprinted in The Still Centre (Faber 1939).
First edition, sole printing, Prokosch's own copy with his signed bookplate, number xx of 2 copies on Imperial vellum, from a total edition of 22, signed & numbered on the colophon; single quire (16.5 x 10.4 cm); original hand-coloured drawing by Frederic Prokosch, signed in pencil and mounted as frontispiece; original orange hexagonal pattern on gold foil paper wrappers (ANW 244; as in Barker 14), gold title label to upper cover, spare title label tipped in at rear, brown thread, with Prokosch's manuscript 'Bibliographical Note' on blue paper; a fine copy, preserved in blue marbled folding case and quarter morocco slipcase.
Barker 34.
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