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Peter Eads / Richard Bates / Lynne Evans – Give Them Their Life – The Poetry Of H.E. Bates – First Limited Edition 1990 – SIGNED by contributors
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A first edition, first printing of Give Them Their Life by H. E. Bates, limited to 1,000 copies of which this is number 25, published by Evensford Productions in 1990. A very good book signed by the editor Peter Eads, illustrator and calligrapher Lynne Evans and elder son of the novelist, Richard Bates. Bound in green cloth with gilt lettering, slight pushing to head and foot of the spine, the text block bright and crisp, the wrapper with bumping to upper edge and tears to lower edge of front panel, chipping and tears to knuckle of front and rear folds, bumping to upper edge of rear panel and tear to lower edge, chip to foot of spine and tear to head of spine, with evidence of internal repairs.
Give Them Their Life by H. E. Bates is a collection of nineteen poems including four composed for Christmas cards, plus a brief prose piece on John Clare and the text of Bates’ four-page review of ‘The Poems of John Clare’.
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A first edition, first printing of Give Them Their Life by H. E. Bates, limited to 1,000 copies of which this is number 25, published by Evensford Productions in 1990. A very good book signed by the editor Peter Eads, illustrator and calligrapher Lynne Evans and elder son of the novelist, Richard Bates. Bound in green cloth with gilt lettering, slight pushing to head and foot of the spine, the text block bright and crisp, the wrapper with bumping to upper edge and tears to lower edge of front panel, chipping and tears to knuckle of front and rear folds, bumping to upper edge of rear panel and tear to lower edge, chip to foot of spine and tear to head of spine, with evidence of internal repairs.
Give Them Their Life by H. E. Bates is a collection of nineteen poems including four composed for Christmas cards, plus a brief prose piece on John Clare and the text of Bates’ four-page review of ‘The Poems of John Clare’.
