One of 50 copies signed by the author. Six leaves, original plain wrappers. S.I. [printed in London by Elliott and Sons], 1931.
With the printed dedication to Maurice Baring, and inscribed to “Edward Marsh” on the colophon leaf. A watery sonnet by the New Zealand born poet, famous for his part in a gay blackmail scandal when the Mayor of Wanganui attempted to murder him. OCLC reports five copies, only one of which is in the US - at Delaware. Marsh played his usual role of patron to Cresswell: Hassall makes the rather coded note that he “was introducing Creswell to literary London and as a companion was finding refreshment in his forthright and unconventional cast of mind”.
