Turner (W. J.) & Sheila Shannon, editors. New Excursions into English Poetry, 6 vol. only (of 7, lacking only Soldiers' Verse, chosen by Patric Dickinson), first editions, original colour lithographs, original pictorial cloth, all with pictorial dust-jackets, only the last price-clipped, a little rubbed and frayed at edges, the second stained and lacking small portion at head of spine, 8vo, 1944-47.
⁂ The series comprises: English Scottish and Welsh Landscape 1700-c.1860, chosen by John Betjeman & Geoffrey Taylor, colour lithographs by John Piper, 1944; Visionary Poems and Passages or The Poets Eye, chosen by Geoffrey Grigson, colour lithographs by John Craxton, 1944; Sea Poems, chosen by Myfanwy Piper, colour lithographs by Mona Moore, ink inscription to front free endpaper, 1944; Poems of Death, chosen by Phoebe Pool, colour lithographs by Michael Ayrton, 1945. Travellers' Verse, chosen by M.G.Lloyd Thomas, colour lithographs by Edward Bawden, ink signature of Barry Viney, 1946; Poems of Sleep And Dream, chosen by Carol Stewart, colour lithographs by Robert Colquhoun, 1947.
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