First World War poets and novelists
Collection of works
£1,260
Auction: 05 February 2025 from 10:00 GMT
Description
Graves, Robert. Over the Brazier. London: The Poetry Bookshop, 1916. First edition, first impression, 4to, original wrappers, housed in a custom green calf-backed solander box, wrappers darkened and with creasing to edges;
Brooke, Rupert. Poems. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd., 1911. First edition, first impression, 8vo, original blue cloth, paper spine-label, tips slightly bumped;
Idem. 1914 and Other Poems. London: Sidgwick & Jackson Limited, 1915. First edition, first impression, 8vo, original blue cloth, paper spine-label, photogravure portrait frontispiece of Rupert Brooke in profile (with tissue-guard), housed in custom blue morocco-backed slipcase and matching chemise;
Rosenberg, Isaac. Poems. Selected and Edited by Isaac Rosenberg. Selected and Edited by Gordon Bottomley. With an Introductory Memoir by Laurence Binyon. London: William Heinemann, 1922. First edition, first impression, 8vo, original black cloth with paper spine-label, halftone portrait frontispiece, dust jacket (slightly toned in places, rubbing to corners);
Gurney, Ivor. Severn & Somme. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd., 1917. First edition, first impression, 8vo, original red boards, printed spine-label, spine sunned and rubbed, headcap worn, sunning to head of front board, small worm-track to foot of pp. 21/2, gradually ramifying and extending into rear board;
Sitwell, Edith (editor). Wheels 1919. First edition, first impression, 8vo, original cloth-backed pictorial boards;
Aldington, Richard. Death of a Hero. A Novel. London: Chatto & Windus, 1929. First edition, first impression, 8vo, original cloth, dust jacket (toned, spine-panel browned and chipped), spotting to gutter of prelims including title-page; and 1 other (8)