first edition Softcover
1954 · Swinford, Eynsham, Oxford
by HALL, Donald, Geoffrey Hill, Jonathan Price, and Anthony Thwaite, edited by
Swinford, Eynsham, Oxford: Fantasy Press, 1954. Softcover. Near Fine. First editions. 12mos. Each 50pp. Printed wrappers. *Oxford Poetry 1953* is poet George MacBeth's copy with his owner signature on the front blank; he is represented in both volumes. *Oxford Poetry 1953* is near fine with light wear and a lightly toned spine. *Oxford Poetry 1954* is trifle musty else fine in stapled printed wrappers and a sunned and lightly edgeworn, very good dust jacket, with a Fantasy Press publisher's advertisement laid in. Housed together in a fine custom maroon cloth-covered clamshell case with spine titling and Geoffrey Hill's facsimile signature gilt. Contains (truncated)