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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, and also with letters
£50.00
A first edition, first printing of Give Them Their Life by H. E. Bates, limited to 1,000 copies of which this is number 7, published by Evensford Productions in 1990, including a letter by Peter Eads of revues and a letter headed with the address of Richard Bates. A near fine 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 spotting to front paste down and front free end paper, the text block bright and crisp, the wrapper with bumping to upper edge of front panel, chip to upper fold of front knuckle and bumping to knuckle of front and rear folds, bumping to upper edge of rear panel, chip to head of spine and bumping to foot of spine.
Give Them Their Life 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 7, published by Evensford Productions in 1990, including a letter by Peter Eads of revues and a letter headed with the address of Richard Bates. A near fine 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 spotting to front paste down and front free end paper, the text block bright and crisp, the wrapper with bumping to upper edge of front panel, chip to upper fold of front knuckle and bumping to knuckle of front and rear folds, bumping to upper edge of rear panel, chip to head of spine and bumping to foot of spine.
Give Them Their Life 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’.
