The Merry Ghosts by WALLER, John - 1946

Editions Poetry London, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" A very good copy in very good- dust jacket with some fading and foxing to jacket; slight internal browning. 8vo with DJ 53pp. Author's second collection of verses. Exterior as noted; lower interior hinge starting, else a very good copy. Presentation copy, signed and with a 4- line inscription by Waller on front free endpaper, July 5, 1948.1 b/w Illustration (frontispiece portrait).

London: Editions Poetry London, 1946. No dust jacket. 53 pages. Beige cloth covers with gold titling, corners, top and base of spine very lightly bumped, otherwise, covers, text, and endpapers are clean, binding is tight, VG+. First UK Edition. Hard Cover. VG+.

London: Editions Poetry London , 1946. Hardback with dust-wrapper. 53pp. Inscribed to JWT - In memory of his House-Warmings! Friday November 20th 1953, Friday December 11th 1953, and at 9 St Anne's Close. 1st edition 1946. D/w slightly foxed and chipped to edges. A pleasing copy. (r40). Inscribed By Author. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.

London : Editions Poetry London, (1946). First edition. A presentation copy, inscribed to Nevill Phillips, with two lines of autograph verse, signed and dated (1948) by John Waller - and with three authorial manuscript corrections in the text.. A collection of thirty-five poems written on active service in the Middle East, including "Convoy", "Soldier under the Stars", "Lovers in Alexandria", "September in Cairo", "Christmas, 1943", etc. Demy 8vo (23cm). (54)pp. Portrait frontispiece by Sevek. Original stone cloth, lettered on spine in gilt; slightly shaken and a little spotted, but a good copy in the original pink, white and black dust-jacket - rubbed, sunned, very slightly chipped and a little marked and spotted.

Editions Poetry London, London., 1946. First edition. Octavo. 53 pages. Frontispiece portrait. Thirty-five poems written on board ship or in various parts of the Middle East, 1941-1943.Presentation copy from the author, inscribed on the front free endpaper to a fellow poet:''To Francis Scarfe from John Waller. December 1946.'' He has also made a small, but important, change to the poem ''Meeting at a Play'' on page 22, and another, slightly less so, to ''Curtain'' on page 37.Very good indeed in very good, spotted, faded and slightly stained dustwrapper.