Description: Walk Through Two Landscapes (Signed) Poems by Dilys Bennett Laing. NY: Twayne Publishers, (1949.) 1st edition. Signed by Laing & with a signed, laid-in note from her mother, Eve Bennett. Forty poems by Laing, a Welsh-American poet (1906-1960) associated with the Dartmouth poets. Signed by Laing on the front free endpaper. The note from her mother is on a folded sheet that includes a photocopy of a drawing for a Christmas card a young Dilys designed in 1925. The recipient of the note received this book as a gift from “Mr. West” [i.e., Herbert Faulkner West, a popular longtime professor of literature at Dartmouth.] 64 pp. Slender clothbound hardcover. 8 x 5.5 inches. VG in a lightly worn and price-clipped dust jacket with clear archival cover. Abrasions on the front pastedown from removal of a bookplate or some other item (unobtrusive and partly hidden by the jacket flap.) Prior owner has circled the titles of three poems, (pp., 15, 28 and 45.) Clean internally otherwise. Sound, tight binding. A unique signed copy with an association to Laing's mother and a noted Dartmouth educator.
Price: 35 USD
Location: Essex, New York
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All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
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Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Dust Jacket, Signed by Author
Author: Dilys Bennett Laing
Publisher: Twayne
Topic: Poetry
Subject: American Literature
Year Printed: 1949
Original/Facsimile: Original
