8vo. [8], 56pp. Original publisher's canary yellow cloth, lettered in red, with original publisher's dustwrapper. A trifle rubbed and marked, with the top edge of the wrapper bumped. Presentation inscription to FFEP: 'from Robert Gittings to L.O. August 30th, 1962'.

Robert Gittings (1911-1992), English writer, biographer, and BBC Radio producer. In 1978, he was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his biography The Older Hardy. Wentworth Place was his first major collection of poetry.

From the library of Laurence Olivier, to whom many books were gifted over the length of his illustrious, industrious, and enduring career as one of the most important figures of stage and screen in the 20th century.