8vo. 110pp. Original publisher's paper boards quarter bound over cream cloth, with the gilt-stamped morocco title label to spine. Top edge gilt, fore and bottom untrimmed. Lightly marked with some shelf wear to edges, cloth and label sunned. Foxing and toning through the endpapers, otherwise bright and clean, with the woodcuts by Bold throughout. Limited edition of 275 copies signed and numbered by the author, this being no. 247.

Walter de la Mare (1873-1956), English writer and poet, and winner of both the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction (1921), and the Carnegie Medal (1947). Though particularly lauded for his supernatural horror short stories, much of his other writings belie a mysterious atmosphere, including nature poem The Listeners (1912). Stuff and Nonsense is his eleventh poetry collection.