BARKER, George. The Dead Seagull.

BARKER, George. The Dead Seagull. London: John Lehmann. 1950.

8vo. Publisher’s orange cloth with black title label lettered in gilt to spine, in the illustrated dust-jacket designed by Humphrey Spender with printed price 7s. 6d. to front flap; pp. 142, [2]; very minor wear to jacket spine ends, minor pushing to spine ends; near fine.

First edition, first impression of poet George Barker’s second novel which serves as a semi-autobiographical account of his relationship with the writer Elizabeth Smart (1913–1986), and a response to her novel, By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept.

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