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Poetry London / Nicholson & Watson, London, 1949. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 4to. 122pp. Blue cloth lettered in gold at the spine. With fifty-six photographs and reproductions on glossy paperstock, twelve of them in colour. Includes W.S.Graham's poem 'The Voyages of Alfred Wallis', reproduced from the pages of the periodical 'Life and Letters'. A touch of light marking to the cloth. Very good indeed in somewhat chafed and chipped price-clipped dust wrapper, with two noticeable area of triangular loss from the upper edge of the rear panel, and several further much small areas of edge-loss. Berlin's celebrated study of the naïve Cornish painter; completed shortly after Wallis' death in 1942, publication was delayed by the Second World War, the book finally appearing nearly five years after it was originally typeset..