Thousand-year-old fiancée & other poems (signed copy) light a British administrator and diplomat

a British administrator and diplomat and an advisor to King Faisal I of Iraq

with card dust-jacket

Bound in stiffened card covers in a colourful

Rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald

Thousand-year-old fiancée & other poems (signed copy) light a British administrator and diplomatCornell University Press, 1965. Hardback in the excellent, unclipped dust jacket, designed by Peter Kahn. With a long inscription on the first endpaper from Sward: "For Peter + Marion Gift Crab and Queen frequencier into the past frequencier into the future for this day Sunday, the last of February, our love, Robert + Judith Sward Victoria 1971". A Fine copy.