[MORTON (J.B.) "Beachcomber".]

Gorgeous Poetry. 1911-1920.

First edition. 8vo., original buff boards, title printed on cover and spine. London, Philip Allan & Co, 1920.

£120.00

Spine a bit darkened and worn, a few splashmarks on the cover, with Christopher Hassall’s pencil note that it was a gift from Rupert Hart-Davis. Morton’s rare second book: he was to become the ultimate comic journalist “Beachcomber” and although he is no Beerbohm, these parodies of Marsh’s Georgian Poetry are cheerfully competent, while never quite burying his own voice:

“My sorrow that I,
With the ever-singing birds
Of yellow-haired Aengus
About my path,
Cannot do this sort of thing
Like Yeats.”

Stock No.
240575