Ruins and visions : poems by Stephen Spender. (Geoffrey Dutton’s copy)

London : Faber and Faber, 1942. First edition, first impression. Octavo, publisher’s green cloth with gilt-lettered spine (tiny ink mark to upper board, else fine); front pastedown with ticket of Adelaide bookseller F. W. Preece, front free-endpaper with dated ownership inscription of Australian literary giant Geoffrey Dutton ‘G. H. Dutton 1942’; pp. 84; contents very clean throughout, an excellent copy.

Provenance:

Geoffrey Dutton AO (1922-1998), Australian author and historian;

by inheritance to Robin Lucas, formerly Robin Dutton, wife of Geoffrey Dutton from 1985;

acquired from the above.