ABSE (Dannie).

Way out in the Centre.

First edition. 8vo., original black cloth, dust jacket. London, Hutchinson, 1981.

£45.00

Inscribed by the author to Roy Fuller: “To Roy, with esteem, Dannie”, with Fuller’s ownership signature on the front free endpaper. In his memoirs, Abse writes of how a stern review by Fuller of a friend’s first book of verse led him to a bizarre bit of late and drastic revision of his own first book. A near fine copy in dust jacket.

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