Hoops of Steel: An Anthology of Dedicatory Poems, being a Farwell Supplement to the Microcosm (Signed and Inscribed)

160pp. No 31 of a signed edition, limited to 300 copies. Printed on Millbourn hand-made paper and bound by Leighton-Straker bookbinders. Bound in strong ivory buckram cloth with silver lettering and motif. Silvered top page edges, all other page edges rough cut. Signed by Dorothy una Ratcliffe on the colophon page, as part of the limited edition. Also signed and inscribed by Ratcliffe, ' To K C, with love, from D U R, Xmas 1935' on the front free endpaper. (Boards very slightly soiled, gently rounded at corner points and spine tips). Internally very occasional, faint foxing. Dorothy Una Ratcliffe was a British socialite and writer, more often known by her initials, D U R. Although born and raised in Sussex and Surrey, she had a deep love of Yorkshire and the Dales, where her father came from. She wrote in the Yorkshire dialect, publishing 49 books and editing The Microcosm. This volume contains poems marking the demise of that magazine. Small 4to.