CROSSINGS; A Fairy Play with music by C. Armstrong Gibbs
signed first edition
1923 · London
by DE LA MARE, Walter
London: W. Collins, 1923. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 169. Bound in cloth backed boards with worn leather label. Signed on the end paper by DeLaMare with a presentation by Gibbs (?) seemingly signed "Cecil" All Music: " Cecil Armstrong Gibbs (who preferred to drop Cecil) was born on August 10, 1889, in Great Baddow, Essex, England. Owing to his mother's death when he was two, several aunts raised him. Cognizant of the boy's extraordinary musical gifts, they implored his father to pursue a musical education for him. But the father resisted, sending him to preparatory (truncated)