{"product_id":"rylands-george-dadie-poems","title":"RYLANDS, George “Dadie”. Poems.","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRYLANDS, George “Dadie”.\u003c\/strong\u003e Poems. \u003ci\u003eLondon: The Hogarth Press.\u003c\/i\u003e 1931.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTall 8vo. Paper boards printed in a dark green, brown and blue herring-bone design, white paper label to front cover with black lettering; unpaginated with untrimmed edges; toning to spine with slight bumping at head, otherwise a very good, clean copy; authorial inscription to front free endpaper  “Edward Playfair\/ with the author’s love\/ Dec: 12th 1931” (see below).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst limited edition, number 197 of 350 hand-printed copies signed by the author, this copy further affectionately inscribed to Edward Playfair.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLeonard and Virginia Woolf\u003c\/strong\u003e published two volumes of George “Dadie” Rylands’s poetry, \u003ci\u003eRusset and Taffeta\u003c\/i\u003e (1925) and \u003ci\u003ePoems\u003c\/i\u003e (1931). They had also published his fellowship dissertation from King’s College, Cambridge; \u003ci\u003eWords and Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e in 1928.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this early state copy, there is a comma rather than a period after Leonard’s initial in the imprint.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eProvenance:\u003c\/i\u003e Presented by the author to Edward Playfair (1909-1999), English civil servant, businessman and sometime Chair of the National Gallery Trustees. Ryalnds and Playfair, together with Julian Bell and Anthony Blunt, formed a close circle of friends during their years at King’s College, Cambridge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWoolmer 269\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU: \u003c\/strong\u003e2121926\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Henry Sotheran Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65036926353785,"sku":"2121926","price":450.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0045\/2178\/7426\/files\/2121926.jpg?v=1793274148","url":"https:\/\/sotherans.co.uk\/products\/rylands-george-dadie-poems","provider":"Sotheran's","version":"1.0","type":"link"}