Thousand-year-old fiancée & other poems (signed copy) light An excellent copy with bright

An excellent copy with bright gilt

lavishly illustrated with colour and b&w photographs

spine decorated with gilt motifs of a sporting theme

Several generations of Soho roisters frequented it small upstairs bar from Bacon and Freud to Hirst and Jopling

bookplate to front pastedown

Thousand-year-old fiancée & other poems (signed copy) light An excellent copy with brightCornell University Press, 1965. Hardback in the excellent, unclipped dust jacket, designed by Peter Kahn. With a long inscription on the first endpaper from Sward: "For Peter + Marion Gift Crab and Queen frequencier into the past frequencier into the future for this day Sunday, the last of February, our love, Robert + Judith Sward Victoria 1971". A Fine copy.