In Dust Jacket, First Edition 1999, previous owners name on half title page, Black and White Plates, tiny mark edge first couple pages otherwise as new, 544 Pages, Published By Gidwit/Random House Auckland. A Very Good Plus Copy. 'Denis Glover is one of New Zealand's outstanding literary figures. This first comprehensive biography investigates the turbulent life of this celebrated poet, typographer, publisher, wit, sportsman and war hero, and offers an illuminating portrayal of the New Zealand cultural scene during its most vital decades. Denis Glover: his Life presents a multi-faceted individual with an almost Elizabethan breadth of talents and enthusiasms, whose boisterous, bibulous, aggressive, unpredictable, extroverted and frequently scandalous behaviour masked a sensitive personality of considerable complexity'