Love's intoxication (indian love lyrics).
London.
The Fortune Press, [1951].
First edition.
8vo.
54pp, [2]. With a lithographed frontispiece and four further lithographed plates. Original publisher's cloth-backed blue paper boards, with an impressed reptile-skin pattern, lettered in gilt to spine. Lightly rubbed, spine sunned. Armorial bookplate of John Comyn to FEP, with his inked ownership inscription dated 1972 to verso of FFEP. Tipped-in contemporary review to head of FFEP. Light spotting and staining to front endpapers.
The sole edition of an illustrated volume of love poems by young Fiji-Indian poet Leonard Sewak Chand Ramsamuj, whose short but positively-received poetic career began with the publication of his previous work, Music of Life: A Collection of Poems (1950). The short contemporary review tipped-in to the front free endpaper declares boldly that 'Mr Ramsamuj's contribution at so early an age assures him a place in Indian literature'.
£ 50.00
Antiquates Ref: 35100
