GEORGE BARKER. [Wilfred Gibson interest]. — Thirty Preliminary Poems.

David Archer, The Parton Press, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). Slim 8vo. 37pp. Original publisher's boards with an integral French-flapped paper wrapper. Several preliminary and concluding leaves quite lightly spotted. This copy from the library of Georgian poet Wilfred Gibson, with his name neatly inked to the head of the front free endpaper, above which is a short inked alpha-numeric string added by a subsequent owner. A very good copy, lacking the original unprinted glassine protector (but with a fresh sheet of acetate supplied). The author's first collection of verse, which was preceded only by his novel 'Alanna Autumnal', published earlier the same year. Eighteen poems., Very Good