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London: Jonathan Cape, 1940. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Lower and vertical page edges uncut and dusty. Dust jacket not price clipped but foxed and with nicks and small tears and repaired at foot of sunned spine. or marked or torn or creased. 133pp. An intimate biography of poet AE Housman by one of the few people who knew him well as the man and not just a poet.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fair. 8 x 5.75 inches.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/good. 8vo, 155 pages, blue cloth Long-time friends, Mr. & Mrs. Withers tended for Housman during his final illness.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1940. [Biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp. 133 [3]. Photographic frontispiece of A.E. Houseman at Souldern Court, 1922. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in silver to spine. Untrimmed edges. A hand-written receipt for the book from Blackwell's loose to preliminaries. Black ink ownership of William St Clair to fly-leaf. Spotting and light toning to endpapers and preliminaries. Light wear to cloth, with some toning to spine and extremities. Very good. Percy Withers was a trained GP, but was best known for his ability to make friends. Perhaps his best known friendship was with A.E. Houseman which he explores through this intimately personal biography of his life. Ex Libris Professor William St Clair, British historian and senior research fellow at the Institute of English Studies.