For Sale First Edition

9.0" (23 cm) Tall Ex-Library Facsimile reprint of 1927 volume. Lightly read exlib, square with sharp corners, tight binding and hinges, bright pages. Exlib marks (ffep, title page, contents, last page of text). Library pocket on rear endpaper and call number in ink on lower spine. Light edge rubbing to cloth over boards. http://www.catscradlebks.com/book_images/670127.jpg

Decorated blue wrappers, VG+. 16pp, LIMITED to 100 copies this being copy 61. SIGNED by the author. ~ 1st edition. ~ A collection of poems, this copy inscribed by the author toF T Jenkins. The book was printed by Sydney Matthewman at the red Lion Press.

Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall No Jacket Cloth First Edition Poet and opium addict. Contents: 1. The making of the reed; 2. The critic and the prose writer; 3. The artist; 4. His imaginative type; 5. Coventry Patmore; 6. Crashaw; 7. Shelley; 8. Donne and St Augustine; 9. The triumph of death; 10. Nature poetry; 11. Science and sanctity; 12. Poetry and childhood; 13. Bedouin and Spanish romance; 14. The spiritualizing of love. Appendices: "The Mistress of Vision": A commentary by Rev John O'Connor; A letter from Robert Browning; Bibliography; Some of the poet's second thoughts (some of Thompson's revisions). Rebound in strong library binding.

Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall No Jacket Cloth First Thus Rebound in strong library binding.