Elegy on Spain.

[Barker (George)]

Elegy on Spain.

Description: FIRST EDITION, reproduction of a photograph tipped in, pp. [iv], 12, crown 8vo, original red cloth with printed label to upper board, dust-darkened around head, dustjacket with loss at head of front panel, faded to borders and backstrip panel, good

Publication Details: Manchester: Contemporary Bookshop, 1939

Notes: Julian Symons' copy with his ownership inscription to the flyleaf: a notable association - Robert Fraser describes in his biography of Barker how Symons had written to the poet, asking if clues as to its authorship might feature in 'Twentieth Century Verse', to which Barker replied that, until inclusion in his next collection disclosed his identity, he would prefer the poem 'to be read more as a poetic orphan than a prize child'.