Raine (Kathleen) Living in Time, signed presentation inscription from the author "To Janet and Michael, friends (with special memories of Cambridge, Ladbroke Grove, Fitzroy Square, Wordsworth Street, The ?Bart, Martindale, ?Apple Tun, and the World's End - beyond which lies other places.) From K." to front free endpaper, 1946; The Year One and Other Poems, presentation inscription from the author to Janet Adam Smith to front free endpaper, 1952, first editions, original boards, dust-jackets, slight toning to spines, spine ends and corners a little chipped; and 4 others, Raine, 8vo (6)

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Janet Adam Smith (1905-99) Scottish writer, literary editor and journalist. From 1930 to 1935 she was assistant editor at The Listener, where she did much to promote the work of new poets, in particular W.H. Auden, Stephen Spender, Herbert Read and Louis MacNeice. In 1936 she succeeded Michael Roberts as chief reviewer in Eliot’s quarterly The Criterion. She married Michael Roberts in 1935.

Michael Roberts (1902-48) English poet, writer, mathematician, critic and broadcaster. He taught at the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle and while there began publishing both his own poetry as well as editing anthologies, the most celebrated of which was the Faber Book of Modern Verse.