C. H. Sisson — Night Thoughts & Other Poems

Oxford Polytechnic, Inky Parrot Press, 1983. First edition. Hardback. A very smart copy of this illustrated limited edition work, housed in original slipcase, and doubly signed. A lovely copy. Housed in a very smart pictorial slipcase, and in the publisher's original pictorial boards. With illustrated endpapers. Illustrated with monochrome lino cut vignette illustrations throughout, with a colour illustration to face the edition page. One of a limited edition run - this being number 76 of 326. Doubly signed by Sisson and Newnham in pencil to the edition page. The work of English poet, novelist, essayist and translator Charles Hubert Sisson, this work details Sisson's concerns with his own life and death, including reflections on war and aging. Bound in original pictorial boards. Housed in pictorial slipcase. Externally, very smart. Book has a very slight backwards lean. Very slight rubbing and bumping to extremities. Slipcase very smart, with minor shelf wear. Internally, firmly bound. Pages generally very bright and clean. Near Fine . Ill.: Annie Newnham. Near Fine .