Thousand-year-old fiancée & other poems (signed copy) light spine decorated with gilt motifs

spine decorated with gilt motifs of a sporting theme

Contains around 100 b/w portraits of celebrities from the first half of the 20th century

with card dust-jacket

bookplate to front pastedown

a British administrator and diplomat and an advisor to King Faisal I of Iraq

Thousand-year-old fiancée & other poems (signed copy) light spine decorated with gilt motifsCornell University Press, 1965. Hardback in the excellent, unclipped dust jacket, designed by Peter Kahn. With a long inscription on the first endpaper from Sward: "For Peter + Marion Gift Crab and Queen frequencier into the past frequencier into the future for this day Sunday, the last of February, our love, Robert + Judith Sward Victoria 1971". A Fine copy.