Herbert. Naked Warriors. London : [ Pelican Press for ] Art & Letters . 1919. [ with: ] —. The End of a War. London: Faber and Faber. 1933. [ and: ] —. Collected Poems.

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READ, Herbert. Naked Warriors. London : [ Pelican Press for ] Art Letters . 1919. [ with: ] —. The End of a War. London: Faber and Faber. 1933. [ and: ] —. Collected Poems. London: Faber and Faber. 1946. Naked Warriors : 8vo. Original card wrappers, printed in red, woodcut illustration by Wyndham Lewis to upper cover; pp. 60; wrappers a little dusty, a few small nicks to extremities, small chip to foot of spine; a very good copy; presentation inscription to half-title ‘for F. S. Flint / Herbert Read’, dated 16 March 1920. The End of a War : 8vo. Original cream printed boards, in the dust-jacket priced 2s. 6d. net to front flap, tail-and fore-edges untrimmed; pp. 31, [1]; corners and extremities rubbed, lower edge of spine bumped with small loss (old adhesive repair), offsetting to endpapers, wrapper variously rubbed, torn and nicked with small losses to corners and spine ends, larger loss at head of rear cover, a few small adhesive repairs; a good copy in like wrapper; inscribed by the author to the dedication page, with an autograph letter signed from Read to the book’s dedicatee, Captain Lancelot Simpson ( see below ). Collected Poems : 8vo. Original pale blue cloth, spine lettered in silver to red lettering piece on spine, in the dust-jacket priced 8s. 6d. net to front flap, fore-edges untrimmed; pp. 201, [3 (blank)]; spine lightly sunned (particularly at head and foot), spine ends slightly bumped, losses to wrapper at head and foot of spine, affecting one or two letters a

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