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[CONNOLLY, Cyril Vernon (1903-74)]. The Unquiet Grave. A Word Cycle by Palinarus. London: Printed at the Curwen Press for Horizon, 1944. 8°. Half title, collotype frontispiece and 3 plates. Original wrappers, upper wrapper lettered and decorated in blue (most of backstrip torn away). FIRST EDITION. NUMBER 32 OF 1,000 COPIES. PRESENTATION COPY, the half title inscribed, "for Ginette with love from Palinarus. 'A shelfy coast/Long infamous for ships & sailors lost.' Joy-day, June 24, 1973."
With 14 other books including John Donne's Love Poems (London, Nonesuch Press, 1923, ONE OF 1,250 COPIES), A. E. Housman's A Shropshire Lad (Chipping Camden, The Alcuin Press, 1929, ONE OF 325 COPIES), Evelyn Waugh's Men at Arms (London, 1952, with dust-jacket, FIRST EDITION), Rosamond Lehman's The Echoing Grove (London, 1953, with dust-jacket, FIRST EDITION), Graham Greene's The Quiet American (London, 1955, with dust-jacket, FIRST EDITION), Colin Wilson's The Outsider (London, 1956, with dust-jacket, FIRST EDITION) and Laurie Lee's Cider With Rosie (London, 1959, with dust-jacket, FIRST EDITION). (15)
With 14 other books including John Donne's Love Poems (London, Nonesuch Press, 1923, ONE OF 1,250 COPIES), A. E. Housman's A Shropshire Lad (Chipping Camden, The Alcuin Press, 1929, ONE OF 325 COPIES), Evelyn Waugh's Men at Arms (London, 1952, with dust-jacket, FIRST EDITION), Rosamond Lehman's The Echoing Grove (London, 1953, with dust-jacket, FIRST EDITION), Graham Greene's The Quiet American (London, 1955, with dust-jacket, FIRST EDITION), Colin Wilson's The Outsider (London, 1956, with dust-jacket, FIRST EDITION) and Laurie Lee's Cider With Rosie (London, 1959, with dust-jacket, FIRST EDITION). (15)
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