A Miscellany of Poetry 1920–1922 (Signed copy)
Signed by the editor, William Kean Seymour to 1920s fashion designer Val St Cyr
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Printing Details
First edition, hardback bound with yellow cloth spine and paper covered boards. Gilt titling to spine and paper title label to upper board. 19.5 × 13cm, 210pp.
This copy has been signed and dedicated by the editor, William Kean Seymour, to Val St Cyr. Val St. Cyr, born Arthur Andrews Hilder in Kent in 1890, worked as a fashion designer for Madame Handley-Seymour during the First World War. Afterwards, in 1921, he linked up with Ernest Pacey Sands to co-found the London-based fashion house Baroque Ltd., which ran from 1921 to the early 1960s. A collection of his fashion drawings can be found in the V&A, where this info comes from.
A nice collection of poetry from the early twenties, including Lascelles Abercrombie, Richard Aldington, Edmund Blunden, G K Chesterton, W H Davies, Walter de la Mare, Robert Graves, D H Lawrence, T Sturge Moore, and Vita Sackville-West to name but a few.
Condition
A nice copy but with some tanning and marking to the spine and light wear to the boards edges. The inner binding is secure, the pages slightly age-toned.
Price
£20.00
