The Welsh-speaking Sea: Selected Poems, 1914-1954

First edition, first impression.  46pp.  Quarter bound in blue cloth over pale blue textured boards, black titling on the spine.  12mo.  Spine cloth is a little tired, gently pushed in and faded at spine ends, corners rounded and edges lightly faded.  Some faint and occasional spotting on first and last few pages else internally neat, clean, bright and tight.  In its original dust jacket, toned, rubbed and chipped, with a dew short nicks around rubbed spine tips.

The second collection of poetry from the Anglo-Welsh poet,  Raymond Garlick (the first, Poems from the Mountain House was published four years earlier).  Garlick, a life-long proponent of the Welsh language and Welsh literature, was a long-time editor of the Anglo-Welsh Review, was renown for the meticulous technical structure  and the formal elegance of his poetry, which he used to reinforce Welsh identity, history and landscape.