First edition, first printing. Original blue cloth with cream lettering to the spine, in dustwrapper. A fine copy, presenting as unread, the binding square and firm, the cloth bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. The merest bumping to a couple of corners; minimal pushing to the lower spine tip. Complete with the sharp, bright dustwrapper that is without fading, loss or tears. Not price-clipped (£25.00 net to the front flap). A lovely copy.
Nicholson (1910-87) was born and lived his whole life in the small coastal town of Millom, south-west Cumbria. His poems combine close, unsentimental observation of the Cumbrian landscape with personal reminiscence. As Alan Hollinghurst wrote in his review ('LRB', 18 February 1982) of Nicholson's final volume, 'Sea to the West (1981), "the creative energy of the poems is channelled into description, and the wisdom of the vision, the revelatory magic, is either left latent or drawn into maxims of such simplicity that they send the reader back to the poem. The poem, like the landscape it describes, claims a self-sufficiency and recognises no obligation to be more than itself."
Stock code: 28149
£40