Martin Armstrong — The Bird-Catcher

London, Martin Secker, 1929. Hardback. A smart, signed limited edition demonstrating Martin Armstrong"s lyrical nature poetry, in a quarter paper vellum binding. In the publisher's original quarter paper vellum binding with paper boards.This copy is a limited edition, being copy number two hundred and sixty of five hundred copies signed by the author.Author's signature, Martin Armstrong, to colophon. Armstrong (1882–1974), an English poet, essayist, and novelist, is known for his evocative depictions of nature. This copy includes poems: "Spanish Village", "Summer in Winter", "Rhapsody on a Pink-iced Cake", "The Eve of the Fair", "Before the Battle", "Immortality", "Cathedral at Night" and "All is One", and many more. In the publisher's original quarter paper vellum binding with paper boards. Externally, smart. Slight fading to extremities. Vellum slightly soiled. The odd minor handling mark to boards. Offsetting to endpapers. Bookplate from "Francis E. Bliss" to front paste down. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean if a little age toned, more so to rough cut fore edge. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine .