The Bridge by Eric Swift. Clarke and Satchell Ltd, Leicester, 1940. Signed 'For John Thacker. Eric Swift. Easter Sunday, 1941' on the title page.

Eric Swift, a teacher of French at Moat Road Boys' School, Leicester, had several small volumes of poetry published in the 1940s and 1950s. His collection, Folk Tales of the East Midlands, appeared in 1954.