WEBSTER'S NEW WORLD COMPANION TO ENGLISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE

First edition, first printing. Inscribed by Arthur Pollard to Sir Brynmor and Dora Jones. Original black cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dustwrapper designed by Milton Charles. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents clean throughout.

Inscribed by the editor in black ink to the front free endpaper "Dora and Brynmor Jones / with good wishes / Arthur Pollard / April 73". Born in Clitheroe, Lancashire and educated at the Grammar School there, Pollard studied at Lincoln College, Oxford after serving in the Second World War. After a period working in the English Department at Manchester University, he became Professor of English at the University of Hull in 1967. This Webster's Companion "concisely records the vital facts concerning over 1,100 authors and literary genres, and some 6,000 individual works. All the important English and American literary figures-poets, novelists, dramatists, and essayists from the earliest days to the present—are described in articles ranging up to 4,000 words in length. In addition, their significant works are identified and, in many cases, summarized, and a succinct assessment of their literary achievement is provided" (from the jacket). Sir Brynmor Jones (1903–1989), was born in North Wales and educated at University College of Wales at Bangor and at St John's College, Cambridge. In 1947 he became a professor chair at University College, where he later became Dean of Science, Deputy Principal. When the college achieved full university status in 1954, he became iPro-Vice-Chancellor and, in 1956, Vice-Chancellor. The expanded University of Hull Library, famously presided over by the poet, Philip Larkin, was named after Jones in 1967.