Todd, Ruthven ~ Until Now : Double Signed By The Author

First UK Printing : The Fortune Press, London : 1942

The First UK Printing published by The Fortune Press, London in 1942. 8vo., navy publisher’s cloth, lettered vertically in gilt to backstrip; together in the blue printed wrapper featuring a list of other Fortune Press poets to the rear panel; outer edges untrimmed; The BOOK is in Very Good++ or better condition with some slight spotting to the outer edge and light fading to boards; the Very Good++ WRAPPER is clipped, some toning to the spine and folds, with a chip to head of the spine, and a couple of discrete internal tape repairs; bookplate of A.P.A. Goodall tipped to the front free endpaper. The wrapper is protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. First edition of this collection of poems, double-signed by Todd, with an inscription to front free endpaper “To Peter, love Ruthven, June 1972” and again neatly signed beneath his printed name to the title. A collection of 39 early poems by the Scottish poet and artist Ruthven Todd, who was a lifelong friend of Julian Symons (credited here in the dedicatory note as having helped him prepare the text of this edition). Todd’s associations also extended to Dylan Thomas, Louis MacNeice, Wyndham Lewis and Ezra Pound. Today, he is perhaps best remembered for his two allegorical novels Over the Mountain (1939) and The Lost Traveller (1943), as well as having rescued Salvador Dali from suffocating inside a heavy diving suit during the 1936 International Surrealist Exhibition.

BINDING: Hardcover
CONDITION: Very Good++
JACKET: Very Good++