HOLLAND, John | Song of a Boy Signed by the Authorís MotherHOLLAND, John. Song of a Boy. London: Privately Printed, 1939.First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by the authorís mother on the front free endpaper: ìTo thank you for your/appreciation of my/sonís work./Phyllis Holland.î Small quarto. [2, blank], [6], 177, [1, blank] pp. Twenty-five plates, twenty-three in color (including frontispiece portrait) and two portraits from photographs. Descriptive tissue guards.Original cream-colored cloth pictorially stamped in gilt on front cover and lettered in gilt on spine. Top edge gilt on the rough, others uncut. Inner hinges just starting. Minimal foxing at beginning and end. A near fine copy. Largely unopened.ìJohn Douglas Holland was born at Basing Houre, Southsea, on August 30th, 1917, and was the only son of Rear-Admiral L.E. Holland. He entered Winchester College when just thirteenÖOn leaving Winchester he went to the Architectural Association for one term and then decided to go to Oxford and was to have entered Magdalen College in October 1936, but while on a short sketching tour in Yugoslavia he caught infantile paralysis and died at Split, Dalmatia, on July 30th, after six daysí illnessÖThese poems and rhymes were written from the age of fourteen. They are not arranged in any particular order of writing as, though some were written out carefully, others were found scribbled here and there in his books and on odd pieces of paper. His paintings, some of which are also reproduced in this book, were, like his poems, quick and unlabouredódone at any moment he might feel in the moodî (preliminary p. [3]). 1939 first edition Price: USD 225.00 other currencies   order no. 00041    inquire

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