lst edition, 73pp, fine copy in sl. chipped, darkened & marked dw, inscribed by the author to Derek Dell Svenson oct 10 1950. "The world breasth eailyh to all enchanted
"For all our loves have ended at Alexandria"
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John Waller (1917- )
Descendant of Edmund Waller. Studied at Worcester College, Oxford. Edited the magazine Kingdom Come at Oxford 1939-41, served in the RASC in the Middle East, then became Features Editor of the MoI in Cairo 1943-5 . Fortunate Hamlet (1941) and The Merry Ghosts (1946).


John Waller (Sir John Stanier Waller - 7th Baronet) was born 27 July 1917. Educated at Weymouth College and Worcester College, Oxford. Author, poet and journalist. Founder-Editor of magazine, Kingdom Come; first new literary magazine of war (1939-1941). Served with RASC in the Middle East (1941-1946) A founder-member of the Salamander Oasis Trust. Lecturer and tutor in English. Information Officer in various places abroad. Editor of anthologies and the autobiography of Keith Douglas.