The Defeated.

London: MacMillan & Co, Ltd.. 1947. First edition. 64 pp. Top edge dusty, some foxing to front cover, else very good plus in very good plus jacket with bumps to corners and shelf wear to spine and edges. Post-war verse–the volume contains a great many sonnets–conflating the dissolution of spiritual faith and love relationships within a larger pattern of shaken beliefs. INSCRIBED by Cummins: ‘To Dennis,/Hoping for more shows/together./Peter./8th March, 1952.’