Description
A collection of modern poetry, mostly with Sydney Goodsir Smith's initials or signature at the front, a number with pencilled annotations by him, to include: AUDEN W.H. Look stranger! ... 1st edition, original cloth, dustwrappers, 8vo., London: Faber & Faber, 1936; AUDEN W.H. The dance of death ... 1st edition, original printed paper boards, dustwrappers, extremities of wrapper a little worn, 8vo., London: Faber & Faber, 1933; ELIOT T.S. Ash Wednesday ... 2nd edition, original cloth, dustwrappers, edges of wrapper a little frayed, 8vo., London: Faber & Faber, 1933; GRAVES Robert. Poems 1938-1945 ... 1st edition, original cloth, dustwrappers, 8vo., London: Cassell, 1946; HOUSMAN Laurence. Echo de Paris ... 1st edition, original quarter cloth, paper boards, printed paper label, dustwrappers, 8vo., no 510 of 750 copies, London: Cape, 1923; LOWELL Robert. Poems 1938-1949 ... 1st edition, original cloth, dustwrappers, presentation inscription from Lowell to Smith at the front, 8vo., London: Faber & Faber, 1950; MacNEICE Louis. Plant and phantom ... 1st edition, original cloth, dustwrappers, loosely inserted is a folded sheet of paper with a short poem entitled "The heron" written and signed by MacNeice October 1939, 8vo., London: Faber & Faber, 1941; MUIR Edwin. The voyage and other poems ... 1st edition, original cloth, dustwrappers, wrappers a little frayed, 8vo., London: Faber & Faber, 1946; PLATH Sylvia. Crossing the water ... 1st edition, original cloth, dustwrappers, 8vo., London: Faber & Faber, 1971; SITWELL Edith. The shadow of Cain ... 1st edition, original paper boards, dustwrapper, 8vo., London: John Lehmann, 1947; SPENDER Stephen. Selected poems ...1st edition, original cloth, dustwrappers, 8vo., London: Faber & Faber, 1940; OWEN Wilfred. The poems ... a new edition ... by Edmund Blunden ... Port. frontis., original cloth, 8vo., London: Chatto & Windus, 1931 and 48 others [60]