james wilfred cryer (2 Ergebnisse)

Grey Cloth Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. No stated date but an inscription is dated 1924 or 1927 (the writing is difficult to read). Presumed first edition. [i], 231pp. including 7 pages of reviews of other works by the authors. 2 b&w portraits of the authors. We have little information about the authors of the poems contained within this book, but William Cryer ((1845-1917) was born in Lancashire. He moved to London where he became a gardener, and later returned to Bolton. James Wilfred Cryer (born 1881) was his third son and an engineer as well as a poet, and eventually was appointed managing director of William Wadsworth and Son Ltd. This collection of their poems includes a foreword by Jessie Annie Anderson (1861-1931), a minor Scottish poet of the late-Victorian era. The book is bound in the original grey cloth covered boards with black titling on the spine and front board. The case of the book is in very good condition with some shelf wear and light soiling on the boards and the spine ends are bumped. The contents are tight and clean with foxing to the free endpapers and a little scattered light foxing elsewhere within the book. A very brief note has been written on the top edge of page 99 and three verses from the poem 'Little Things' on pages 99 and 100 have blue brackets drawn beside them. There is an inscription on the top edge of the title page by James Wilfred Cryer that reads: "Mr Barron[?] with every good wish J.W.C. 20/6/24[?]". INSCRIBED and initialled by th.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Unknown (illustrator). A very scarce and intimate anthology of poems by Lancashire poets William Cryer and his son James Wilfred, who has also signed the work. A very scarce poetic anthology Poems by Father and Son, by Lancashire William Cryer and James Wilfred Cryer. Singed by James Wilfred. Privately printed by Tillotson and Son in c.1923.In the publisher's original cloth, with James Wilfred Cryer's inscription and signed initials to the title leaf. Contains two illustrated portraits of father and son before each section. Collated complete.The final leaves contains reviews of previous works Lays After Labour (William) and Lyrical Longings (James Wilfred).After the death of his father, and with the assistance of Scottish poet Jessie Annie Anderson, James Wilfred wished to publish his and his father's work in one intimate anthology. Split first between William Cryer's poems, then followed by James Wilfred's, we as a reader can see how one poet has passed their talent from one poet to another. In the publisher's original cloth. Externally, smart, with the odd mark to board extremities. Slight fading to the extremities and to the spine. Slight bumping to the head and tail of the spine, and to the extremities. End papers are generally bright and clean, with faint spotting to the free end papers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean, with faint spotting to the extremities of the first and last leaves. Very Good. signed by author. book.