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WHITE, Eric Walter.

[Christmas Poems].

[Christmas Poems].

Stock Code 108185

[N.p.], The Baynard Press, 1944-1965.

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A collection of Christmas poems by the musicologist, composer, translator, editor, poet, writer, and arts administrator Eric Walter White, comprising: I. Portrait of a Visitor, 1944; II. Legendary Man, Christmas 1945; III. The Tower, Christmas 1946; IV. In the Val Maggia, 1948; V. Three Lyrics, Christmas 1950; VI. Pastoral (After Tebaldeo), Christmas 1951; VII. Bealings Bells, Christmas 1953; VIII. Night Rumour, Christmas 1954; IX. Poor B.B. (1898-1956), Christmas 1956; X. Orphic Palindrome, 1957; XI. Memorial Lines, [1960]; XII. Tribute to H.D. (on her 75th Birthday), 1961; XIII. Homage to T.S. Eliot 13 June 1965, Christmas 1965.

Thirteen poems, most 12.8 x 10.2 cm; scattered light spotting (not affecting text), title borders to 11 poems in various colours, Memorial Lines design by Terry Durham, correction in ink to 'Homage to T.S. Eliot'; publisher's printed card, folded as issued, housed in custom red cloth solander box (15.1 x 12.1 cm), red morocco spine label with gilt lettering, a very good set.

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