Childe, Wilfred Rowland — Selected Poems

London, Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if lightly toned interior, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, moderately worn and a bit soiled, price-clipped, protected by a plastic coat. Some light foxing to endpapers else quite bright and clean. The poet, Wilfred Rowland Childe (1890–1952), was a British author, educated at Harrow School and Magdalen College, Oxford, says his Wikipedia entry, and he edited Oxford Poetry in 1916 and 1917, teaching English literature at the University of Leeds in 1922. He is best known for Dream English: A Fantastical Romance (1917), "something of a minor cult book" (Wikipedia). 60 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good/Good,