Wai-te-ata Press, 1971. Shelf wear including indentations to card covers. Foxing to page ends and throughout. Fading to spine.

James Bertram was born in Auckland in 1910 and educated at Waitaki and Auckland University.
In 1932 he went as Rhodes Scholar to New College, Oxford, where he read English and Modern Languages. He spent several years as a war correspondent in China, acted as press attache at the British Embassy in Chungking, served as a gunner with the Hong Kong Volunteers, and was a prisoner of war in Hong Kong and Japan until 1945.
Since 1947 he has been a member of the English Department at Victoria University, Wellington, where he now holds a personal chair. He has edited the New Zealand Letters of Thomas Arnold, written extensively on New Zealand literature, and isat present working on a study of Clough's poetry and a further edition of Arnold letters.
He does not regard himself as a poet; but these fugitive verses gathered from some thirty years record a few points of personal history, and may sketch a pattern of shraed experience in times of peace and war.
This collection has been printed by several student hands at the Wai-te-ata Press. The cover was designed by John Drawbridge.