Including the Light Verse
A WEDDING GIFT FROM BOSIE TO NANCY MITFORD
The Complete Poems of Lord Alfred Douglas Including the Light Verse
Secker, 1928.
First edition. Original quarter parchment over grey paper covered boards. Top edge gilt. Author's presentation copy, inscribed on the front end paper, "Nancy Mitford from Alfred Douglas August 1933". With a two sided ALS beginning, "Dear Miss Nancy, I was up in London today and I went into Secker's and inscribed a copy of my "Complete Poems" for you as a wedding present." Frontispiece portrait of the author after a pencil drawing by Walter Spindler. A very good copy, with an half inch chip to the base of the spine, but otherwise clean. With defective dustwrapper. Please ask for images.
Lord Alfred Douglas, "Bosie" has perhaps become best known for his love affair with Oscar Wilde. This reputation has overshadowed his poetry, which was highly regarded by writers such as Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch; John Betjeman, Frank Harris, who considered him a fine sonneteer, and George Bernard Shaw. This volume was sent to Bosie's friend Nancy Mitford on the occasion of her wedding.
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