MERCIAN HYMNS

First edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Publisher's original orange and black card covers. A very good or better copy, the binding square and firm, the extremities lightly rubbed and toned. The contents, with a little spotting to the text block edges, are otherwise clean throughout and without previous owner's inscriptions or stamps.

Signed and inscribed by the author in black ink on the half title "Geoffrey Hill / 25 August 1971". Scarce thus. A collection of prose poems combining memories of Hill's childhood in 1930s Worcestershire with tales of the eighth-century Mercian king, Offa.