SNOOK

First edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Inscribed presentation copy. Publisher's original Balfour illustrated card covers, with titles in black. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm, with light rubbing to the extremities. The contents are clean throughout.

Inscribed by the author in blue ink on the title page "Sir, / I offfer this wiv / respek, you bein my C.O., / Sgt Snook (& Missus) / Luv, / Michael". Michael Baldwin (1930-2014) award winning novelist, poet, broadcaster, writing tutor and founder and chair of the Arvon Foundation. 'Snook' is his seventh collection of poetry. The recipient is Frank Pike, editor at Faber, who over four decades, from the 1960s, onwards was responsible for the Faber drama list, recruiting Tom Stoppard, Simon Gray, Brian Friel, Sam Shepard, and Alan Bennett, among others, as well as working closely with authors already publishing with the firm, notably Samuel Beckett.