Best, John and Rigby Graham — Poems and Drawings in Mud Times

London, Orpheus Press, 1960. Special Limited Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, arrestingly illustrated at front cover, with unbruised tips, neat and tidy paste-downs; not ex-library, with neither highlighting nor underlining. Stiff Mylar jacket, torn but tape-repaired. Designed by Douglas Martin at the Orpheus Press, and printed for them by the Curwen Press. First Edition. One of only 500 hardcover copies produced (although 1000 were apparently originally scheduled). Poems by John Best and nearly three dozen drawings, plus front and rear board illustrations by the artist, Rigby Graham, he also being a Brit and a noted creative force in England, he being the author of Kippers & Sawdust.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine