HYDE, ROBIN [inscribed copy]
Dragon Rampant.
London Hurst & Blackett [1939] first edition. 17p, [1]p, 16p publisher's adverts at end for Spring 1939. Some foxing throughout. 222mm, bound in blue cloth, heavily shelf faded. Binding unworn and tight.
Inscribed on endpaper 'Dr. H.M. Buchanan' with kindest regards, and many thanks for your friendliness, Yours sincerely Robin Hyde [Iris Wilkinson ] June, 1939'.
She travelled via China to England, a brief stop-over in Hong Kong disclosed another world: China, where some of her finest poems, the travel book Dragon rampant, and many articles emerged from, her extraordinary journey into the war zone. She eventually reached England, September 1938, ill and penniless, she took her own life and died in 1939 at the age of 33.