Lot 306
Poetry Bookshop--Monro, Harold
Auction: 4 February 2009 at 11:00 GMT
Description
19 works by Harold Monro or published by his Poetry Bookshop, comprising: M[arsh]., E[dward]. Georgian Poetry 1920-1922, 1922; Aldington, Richard. Images (1910-1915), 1915, wrappers; Cotton, Charles. Poems...Decorated by Claud Lovat Fraser, 1922, in red dust-jacket; another copy, in green dust-jacket; Mew, Charlotte. The Rambling Sailor. 1929; Monro, Harold. Children of Love. 1914, presentation copy inscribed by the author to M.T.H. Sadler, wrappers; Strange Meetings. 1917, with a typed letter signed by Monro to the bookseller Mr Firuski tipped in; another copy, second printing, wrappers; Sturge Moore, T. Pan's Prophecy. 1931, wrappers, covers almost detached; Monro, Harold. Before Dawn (Poems and Impressions). Constable & Co., 1911, original cloth, stamped presentation copy, covers marked, lacking jacket; a printed card ("Number Four of a series of four Christmas Cards by modern artists") inscribed by Monro to Siegfried Sassoon in December 1930; three prospectuses; and 5 other volumes; except where stated, all The Poetry Bookshop, 8vo, first editions, original boards and dust-jacket, some spotting or browning, most jackets frayed, brittle or with tears (19)