John Crowe Ransom: 'Grace After Meat', Intro. Robert Graves,...

Hammer

£55

John Crowe Ransom: 'Grace After Meat', Intro. Robert Graves, Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1924, 1st edition, one of 400 copies, ownership signature of the poet and crime writer Julian Symons to FFEP "Julian Symons, Putney, October 1940", original decorative paper covered boards, printed title label to front cover; Robert Graves: 'Over the Brazier', London, The Poetry Bookshop, 1920, 3rd printing, original cloth backed pictorial paper covered boards, woodcut illustration to front cover by Claud Lovat Fraser, dust wrapper (slightly worn); Edward Thomas: 'Last Poems', London, Selwyn & Blount, 1918, 1st edition, 8pp publishers catalogue of adverts at end dated Autumn 1918, original paper covered boards, remnants of printed paper label to spine. From the estate of John Richard Harding Yeoman (1916-1988), Copy Writer and Director for several Advertising Agencies, Assistant Secretary (Publicity) for the Council for the Protection of Rural England, Borough Councillor for Kensington and Chelsea, Governor of the Chelsea School of Art, and lover of art, poetry and books. John Yeoman’s first wife was Antonia Yeoman, née Beryl Antonia Thompson (1907-1970), the Australian-English commercial artist, cartoonist and illustrator who worked under the name “Anton” (3)