Beauty for Ashes

First edition. Slim 8vo. Pp. 39, [3, blank]. Pink printed wraps pasted down onto card covers (price 2s. 6d). Cotton thread binding. From the publisher's "New Poets" series.

Lightly worn to edges, pencilled-over jacket price, else an immaculately clean, fresh copy.

Winner of the 1942 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. Donnelly's first published work, being a "book-length" romantic allegory in the form of an elegy.