Roy Campbell — The Gum Trees

London, Faber & Faber Ltd, 1930. First edition. Hardback. A limited first edition of Roy Campbell"s The Gum Trees, featuring a frontispiece and colour plate illustration by David Jones. In the publisher's original red paper covered boards.This volume is a first large-paper edition, printed on English hand-made paper, being one of four hundred copies, this copy is unnumbered. Signed by the author, Roy Campbell, to the limitation page.This copy is illustrated by a frontispiece and a colour plate by David Jones. Collated, complete.Campbell"s title poem describes an avenue of gum trees merging in the distance, interpreted as a metaphor for existential longing. Roy Campbell (born Ignatius Royston Dunnachie Campbell, 1901-1957) was a South African poet, satirist, literary critic, translator, and war poet. In the publisher's original paper covered boards. Externally, very smart. The odd slight handling mark to boards. Slight fading to extremities. Spine faded. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Author's signature to limitation page. Near Fine . Ill.: David Jones. Near Fine .