Description: Wolf's-Bane, Rhymes by John Cowper Powys. 1916 1st Ed in DJ. SIGNED WOLF'S-BANE Rhymes by John Cowper Powys New York: G. Arnold Shaw, 1916. First edition (preceding the UK edition). Hardcover, Hardcover. Blue paper-covered boards with paper labels on spine and front board. Dust wrapper, octavo, 120 pages. Signed by the author on the half-title page. Scarce signed copy and rare in original dust jacket. John Cowper Powys ( 8 October 1872 – 17 June 1963) was an English philosopher, lecturer, novelist, critic and poet born in Shirley, Derbyshire, where his father was vicar of the parish church in 1871–1879. Powys appeared with a volume of verse in 1896 and a first novel in 1915, but gained success only with his novel Wolf Solent in 1929. He has been seen as a successor to Thomas Hardy, and Wolf Solent, A Glastonbury Romance (1932), Weymouth Sands (1934), and Maiden Castle (1936) have been called his Wessex novels. As with Hardy, landscape is important to his works. So is elemental philosophy in his characters' lives. In 1934 he published an autobiography. His itinerant lectures were a success in England and in 1905–1930 in the United States, where he wrote many of his novels and had several first published. He moved to Dorset, England, in 1934 with a US partner, Phyllis Playter. In 1935 they moved to Corwen, Merionethshire, Wales, where he set two novels, and in 1955 to Blaenau Ffestiniog, where he died in 1963. CONDITION: Very Good Book in a Good Dust jacket. (The bottom of the spine has a one inch cloth patch covering a damaged section, the spine label has a small chipped corner, the rear board has several very small dents. The binding is tight and the Contents are Fine. The dust jacket is missing a 1 inch section at the bottom and a half-inch section at the top. There are several other small chips at the margins and folds; some soil and light stains.) Check our other auctions and store listings for additional unusual items Check our other auctions and store listings for additional unusual items Listing and template services provided by inkFrog
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Topic: Poetry
Author: John Cowper Powys
Binding: Hardcover
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Dust Jacket
Subject: Literature & Fiction
Year Printed: 1916
