edan gate poems frontispiece drawing von alberta vickridge (1 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, limited to 225 copies printed by the author on a foot-operated Platen Number 2 Postcard Press installed in the attic of her Beamsley House home. This copy inscribed by the author to an un-named recipient at the head of an unprinted preliminary leaf: "With Poetry, from alberta Vickridge, Xmas, '32". Slim 8vo. 35pp sewn into unprinted card wrappers with an integral dust wrapper. Some spotting to the edges, and to four or five preliminary and concluding leaves, and with a touch more sporadic spotting throughout. Some toning to the wrapper margins, and a short, light crease to the upper corner. A very good copy of the author's seventh book. A dedicatory verse and a brief introductory note by the author precedes eighteen poems and the title-piece, a short verse-play. Most uncommon, and much more so with the author's inscription. Alberta Vickridge (1890-1963) was a Bradford-born author of nine volumes of poetry, six of which were printed and issued under her own Jongleur Press imprint (she also single-handedly issued a quarterly literary journal, 'The Jongleur', for nearly thirty years). She won a Bard's Crown and Bardic Chair at the 1924 Eisteddfod for her extended poem 'The Forsaken Princess', the only Yorkshire woman so awarded; and her work was admired by J. B. Priestley, Wilfred Gibson and Agatha Christie (she and Christie worked together as VADs in the Red Cross Town Hall Hospital in Torquay during the Great War). Today she is all but forgotten in her native Yorkshire. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced]. Inscribed by Author(s).