First edition, first impression. Henry W. Nevinson's advance review copy with his ownership inscription on the front free endpaper, his autograph notes and the publisher's review slip laid in. Nevinson's inscription reads: "Henry W. Nevinson, who was Edward Thomas's friend, June 1937". Nevinson first met Edward Thomas when he was literary editor of The Daily Chronicle and offered him a job as a reviewer. Thomas "became one of Nevinson's most competent critics and a close friend as well" (p. 59). His impressions of that meeting are quoted by Eckert: "To Nevinson's desk one night Thomas strode 'with a proud and melancholy shyness'. He appeared a tall, thin, shy young Oxford man, badly in need of work, whose 'face of attractive distinction and ultra-refinement was sicklied over with nervous melancholy and the ill condition of bad food or hunger'" (ibid.)
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