Pauline Tennant — Loaves and Fishes

Ledbury, Tilley Printing, 1992. First edition. Paperback. A signed first edition of this very scarce collection of poems from actress and socialite Pauline Laetitia Tennant. A signed presentation copy of the first edition of this very scarce poetry collection from English actress, poet and socialite Pauline Tennant.Inscribed to the front free endpaper 'Frances, with love Pauline, April '92&apos. This Frances is Frances Partridge, an English writer closely connected to the Bloomsbury Group, who was married to Ralph Partridge, the unrequited love of Lytton Strachey.Consisting of twenty-nine short poems from Tennant, who was described in her obituary as 'a true bohemian aristocrat – a tension of qualities that were literally in her genes&apos.With an illustrated frontispiece. In the publisher's original paper wraps. Externally, fine. Signed to front free endpaper. Internally, tightly bound. Pages clean and bright. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine .