Reilly 149.

First Edition. Signed by Author. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 1947 1st edition. 64pp. Near Fine/Very Good. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Black cloth boards. Contents clean and tight but for very minor foxing. Minor rubbing and chipping to edges and spine of DW. Poems written between 1936 and 1946, many while the author was on active service in India and Burma. These wonderfully colourful poems reveal an unaffected innocent-eyed observation of his changing surroundings. There is an inscription by Gutteridge dated 1963. He died in 1985.

Bernard Gutteridge (1916 – 1985) was a British poet, known for poems about the Spanish Civil War, or from his World War II experiences in Madagascar, India and with the 36th Division, Royal Hampshire Regiment, of the British Army in Burma (with Alun Lewis).

He was born in Southampton and educated at Cranleigh. He worked in advertising both before and after the war (part of the time for the J. Walter Thompson agency). His 1954 novel The Agency Game is set in the advertising world.