Rowley, Richard — Selected Poems

New York, Duckworth & Co., 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Richard Valentine Williams, who wrote poetry and other works as "Richard Rowley," was born in 1877 in Belfast and at 16 entered the family manufacturing firm McBride and Williams before in 1931 being appointed Chairman of the Northern Ireland Unemployment Assistance Board. He became eventually a celebrated poet and editor of Mourne Press. Bound simply in black cloth, with gilt lettering to spine. Dust jacket present, not price-clipped, but chipped along spine bottom and along top edge. Frontis matter, 2-149 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good/Fair,