W. J. TURNER. — The Hunter and Other Poems.

Sidgwick & Jackson, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). Slim 8vo. 76pp + [iii] publisher's advertisements at the rear. Brown cloth with a tanned and slightly chipped paper spine label. Backstrip ends and corner tips very gently bruised. Former owner bookplate to the front pastedown. A very good copy. No dust wrapper. Twenty-six poems, the author's first collection of verse, including a number of Great War poems. Walter James Turner was born in Melbourne in 1884 and moved to England when he was twenty-three to pursue a career as a writer. He befriended Siegfried Sassoon, Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville-West and Lady Ottoline Morrell (a caricature of her in his book 'The Aesthetes' ended that friendship). He served as a Lieutenant in Royal Garrison Artillery, anti-aircraft section between 1916-18. Reilly p.319., Very Good, No Jacket