In the original dust jackets. Different coloured cloth bindings with gilt title on the spines. Dimensions are for one volume.

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Three first edition private copies of John Redwood Anderson’s books along with some of his personal correspondence. All are in good order and are excellent collectors copies, please view the photographs to view condition. 

John Redwood Anderson (1883 – 29 March 1964) was an English poet and playwright. His play Babel was staged on several occasions. Anderson was born in Salford and educated at home and at Trinity College, Oxford. After travelling, he settled as a teacher in Kingston-upon-Hull.

Anderson’s play Babel was staged several times,and published by Ernest Benn in 1927. It reappeared in 1936 in a revised stage version as The Tower to Heaven by the Oxford University Press.

In 1953 his wife, Gwyneth’s aunt Rachel Barrett died. She had been a leading suffragette and left her Essex home, Lamb Cottage in Sible Hedingham, to her niece. Anderson died at his home in Sible Hedingham on 29 March 1964; he was 81.