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95 pages, some uncut, Blue Cloth, 19.5 x 13 cm. Fine Copy, Signed Card enclosed denoting gift of 2 copies of this books to Mrs Lois Gascoyne, 1944.


During World War II he served in the Royal Artillery as an intelligence officer in India and Burma, he left the army with the rank of major.

Irwin Peter Russell (16 September 1921 – 22 January 2003) was a British poet, translator and critic. He spent the first half of his life—apart from war service—based in Kent and London, being the proprietor of a series of bookshops, editing the influential literary magazine Nine and being part of the literary scene. Bankruptcy and divorce led to several years of travel which took him to Berlin, Venice, British Columbia and Iran, amongst other places. After the Iranian Revolution he settled permanently in Italy, where he spent the rest of his life. He lived in considerable financial hardship and throughout all he lived a life dedicated to poetry. His work never became mainstream, but it is highly regarded in some circles.