A. E. COPPARD. — Hips & Haws. Poems. (INSCRIBED)

The Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham St. Lawrence, 1st Edition, Inscribed by Author(s), First edition, limited to 500 numbered copies (this copy un-numbered and marked 'Not for Sale'). A presentation copy, inscribed by the author to fellow writer Frederic Prokosch, under which Coppard has inked the final two lines of Masefield's poem 'Flesh, I Have Knocked at Many a Dusty Door'. With Prokosch's bookplate to the front pastedown. Slim 8vo. 44pp. Buckram-backed paper-covered boards with a paper spine label. Boards a little rubbed and dust soiled, and with just a little toning and spotting to the endpapers and to two or three preliminary leaves. A nice bright copy of the author's first collection of verse, and the seventh Golden Cockerel Press publication. No dust wrapper., Good, No Jacket