Bernard Moore — A Cornish Collection

London, The C. W. Daniel Company , 1933. First edition. Cloth. An excellent collection of Cornish folk-tales recorded in verse, both flat-signed and with a signed letter from the author. A presentation copy of the first edition, signed by the author to the front free endpaper. With a charming handwritten letter from the author loosely inserted, sent the same year as this book's publication. In it he emphasises the business of his current life, including a full home refurbishment, his children returning from a visit to Australia, and dressing up at Father Christmas for the local school.First edition. Containing a selection from previous books, together with some new verses. With the publisher's unclipped dust wrapper.A delightful record in song and story of the Cornish Ports, serving as a tribute to the "courage and endurance" of its fisherman. With vivid imagery of homely scenes, boyhood and the sea.Written by Samuel Syrus Hunt using his pseudonym Bernard Moore. His most frequently approached topic was Cornwall, in particular its fisherman, although he did write war poetry also. Many of his poems are written in the Cornish dialect and he is best known for the poem Travelling (included here), which contrasts the sights and sounds of an urban London railway journey with one on the rural Looe Valley Line. In the original quarter cloth binding. With the original unclipped dust wrapper, with marbled design matching to the baords. Externally, excellent, with only minor shelf wear. Dust wrapper is smart, with sunning to the spine. Minor losses to the spine head and tail and the head of the folds. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean, with the odd spot, heaviest to the first and last few leaves. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Very Good.