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Walter De La Mare “Stuff and Nonsense and So On” Woodcuts by Bold, 1927, London. - Walter De La Mare “Stuff and Nonsense and So On” Woodcuts by Bold, 1927, London. Constable and Company, Ltd, London, 1927. XI, 110 pp., Hard cover, 19.5 x 13.5 cm. Condition: some wear, rubbing and soiling to cover, corners bumped; some foxing stains to endpapers, first and last pages, minor stains internally; worm holes to rear cover near spine. Weight: 265 gr. Walter John de la Mare (25 April 1873 – 22 June 1956) was an English poet, short story writer and novelist. He is probably best remembered for his works for children, for his poem ”The Listeners”, and for his psychological horror short fiction, including ”Seaton's Aunt”, ”The Green Room” and ”All Hallows”. In 1921, his novel Memoirs of a Midget won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction, and his post-war Collected Stories for Children won the 1947 Carnegie Medal for British children's books.