Thomas, Edward
Group of works
£504
Auction: 05 February 2025 from 10:00 GMT
Description
Four-and-Twenty Blackbirds. London: Duckworth & Co., 1915. First edition, first impression, 4to, original blue cloth lettered and decorated in gilt and plate, tipped-in colour frontispiece, spine sunned, small tear to pp. 13/14 of advertisements;
An Annual of New Poetry. London: Constable and Company Ltd., 1917. First edition, first impression, 8vo, original grey boards lettered in red, dust jacket, browning to verso of title-page and first page of contents from laid-in material;
Twelve Poets. A Miscellany of New Verse. London: Selwyn and Blount, 1918. First edition, first impression, 8vo, original buff boards lettered in black, dust jacket (spine darkened, a few small tears, repairs verso), contents browned;
Together with 4 others: Helen Thomas, As It Was, 1926 (first edition, original cloth, spine rolled, dust jacket spotted and with discreet repairs verso); idem, World Without End, 1931 (first edition, original cloth, with autograph letter signed by the author tipped to front pastedown); Edward Thomas, The Icknield Way, 1913 (first edition, original cloth); Tragara Press, Helen & Edward Thomas, 1985 (one of 165 copies, original wrappers) (7)
Footnote
Constable's An Annual of New Poetry for 1917 contains 18 poems by Thomas, written under his pseudonym Edward Eastaway, and some 30 others divided between seven other contributors including Robert Frost. Twelve Poets contains ten Thomas poems. Both compilations are scarce in the dust jackets.