First Edition.
Hardback.
Dust Jacket.
8vo.
pp.
48.
Poetry.
Part of the Phoenix Living Poets Series.
Loosely inserted a short signed letter by the author to the poet Barry Cole.
Neat name on front endpaper: 'Barry Cole.
' Original publisher's binding in terracotta with fresh gilt lettering on spine and a small recessed embossed gilt phoenix.
Jacket design by Enid Marx shows a repeat pattern in blue on white of phoenix rising.
Barry Cole (1936Ð2014) was a British poet.
Following the Royal Air Force (1955-1957) he became a reporter with Reuters news agency, London (1965Ð70) and senior editor at the Central Office of Information (1974Ð94.
) He was Northern Arts Fellow at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Durham University (1970Ð72.
) Arnold Rattenbury (1921-2007) was a poet and exhibition designer.
Very good indeed in very good tanned dust jacket.