Rowley, Richard — Final Harvest

Belfast, Ireland, H.R. Carter, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in tan cloth with dark brown lettering to front board, internally clean hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, with first free endpaper showing remains probably of a former bookplates; not ex-library, with neither highlighting nor underlining. Printed on fine paper by letterpress. Richard Valentine Williams, who wrote poetry and other works as "Richard Rowley," was born in 1877 in Belfast and at 16 entered the family manufacturing firm McBride and Williams before in 1931 being appointed Chairman of the Northern Ireland Unemployment Assistance Board. He became eventually a celebrated poet and editor of Mourne Press. 27 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good