[Patric Dickinson, poet, translator and broadcaster.] Copy of his 'The Good Minute / An Autobiographical Study' ('Autobiography of a poet-golfer'), with printed keepsake poem 'The Unseen Kings' inscribed by him to his mistress Sarah Hamilton.

Patric Dickinson has not received his due. A self-styled ‘poet and impresario of poetry’, Dickinson occupied a central position in the cultural landscape of post-war Britain. As an editor and broadcaster he worked with poets such as Dylan Thomas, Cecil Day Lewis and Roy Campbell, actresses Flora Robson, Peggy Ashcroft and Jill Balcon, and actors Robert Donat, Ralph Richardson, John Gielgud. See John Mole’s obituary in the Independent, 31 January 1994. From the papers of Dickinson’s mistress Sarah Emmeline Hamilton. (His extraordinary correspondence with her, including 171 original and mostly-unpublished poems, 474 autograph letters and 349 post cards, is offered separately). The autobiography is 238 + [1] pp, 8vo. In customary yellow Gollancz dustwrapper, printed in black and red. The book is in fair condition, lightly aged, in aged and worn dustwrapper. Three loosely inserted items. ONE: Part of wraparound band with endorsements: ' Beautifully written - Nigel Balchin One of my bedside books - Henry Cotton A very living book - Christopher Fry I've had a glorious birthday reading it - Sir Ralph Richardson A great delight - Dame Flora Robson A bloody good book - Rex Warner I loved it - C. V. Wedgwood So good - Leonard Woolf'. TWO: Newspaper cutting of Sunday Times review, 20 June 1965. THREE: Printed keepsake poem on blue card: 'The Unseen Kings' ('They tracked the travelling star / Till it stilled above one place.'). Inscribed in PD's autograph at foot of poem: 'All our Love / S & P.' Dated on reverse by PD's mistress Sarah Hamilton 16 December 1991.