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WICKHAM, ANNA [pseud. Edith Alice Mary Harper.] : : THE MAN WITH A HAMMER - Verses.

LONDON.GRANT RICHARDS LTD.,1916.

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UK,12mo HB,SIGNED,1st edn.VG.No owner inscrptn but author's handwritten black ink inscrptn (in her married name): 'With good wishes from Anna Hepburn' to top edge of ffe.Publisher's original plain blue cloth boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt lettering to a dulled spine/backstrip which also has a tiny pin-prick,and fairly clean plain white eps - signature excepted; with negligible shelf-wear, bumping or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,splits,tears or fraying present. Boards however have several cloth wrinkles in a couple of places to front board and to top edge of rear board.Top edges coloured(?) or toned(?),fore-edges aged/ toned and deckled (untrimmed); contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.UK,8vo HB,SIGNED,1st edn,7-96pp [paginated] includes contents list/table with an errata slip tipped in amongst same,167 poems includes Envoi as the last,plus [unpaginated] half-title+ title,to the rear,publisher's blank with thumbnail b/w illustrated initialled colphon for their Autumn 1915 publications,3-9pp [paginated] another single page with blank verso and a title advert to its recto. A very uncommon title as a stand alone 1st edn,either SIGNED or not,though this title was included in 'The Comtemplative Man and The Man with a Hammer - an introduction by Louis Untermeyer' volume [US,Harcourt Brace,NY,1921] and is also uncommon.Particularly unusual and of note - being SIGNED with her married name. Pseudonym of Edith Alice Mary Harper (1883–1947)Born in Wimbledon,London and brought up in Australia between Brisbane and Sydney.['Wickham' was adopted from a Brisbane street name.] English/Australian poet who was a pioneer of modernist poetry,and one of the most important female poets writing during the first half of the twentieth century.She was friend to other important writers of the time,such as DH Lawrence,George Bernard Shaw, Katherine Mansfield and Dylan Thomas.She lived a transnational,unconventional life, moving between Australia,England and France.She returned to England in 1904, taking singing lessons and winning a drama scholarship at RADA (which had just been founded).In 1906 she married Patrick Hepburn,a City of London solicitor.They had a family home in Hampstead: Downshire Hill from 1909 and then from 1919 a house on Primrose Hill which was to be her permanent home.She took her own life in 1947. She is remembered as a modernist figure and feminist writer,although she was one who did not command sustained critical attention in her lifetime,but her poetry did earn her a major reputation at the time of writing and has been frequently anthologised.Her literary reputation improved since her death and is now regarded as an important early 20thC woman writer. Since April 2013 and again in March 2015, and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering it's prices,weight allowances,dimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too! So,please contact seller,because of the lighter weight and the value of this item for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!

UK,12mo HB,SIGNED,1st edn.
'With good wishes from Anna Hepburn'

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