Poems

by Rupert Brooke

$1,500 · Offered by John Windle Antiquarian

First edition

London: Sidgwick & Jackson, Limited, 1911. 8vo, 88 pp. Original navy cloth over boards, paper label to backstrip lightly toned and worn, slight bumps to corners, a few light scuffs to cloth. Very good. ß First edition. One of 500 copies printed of Brooke's first commercially-published book, preceded by several rare pamphlets. The volume opens with the prophetic sonnet  Oh! Death will find me, long before I tire / Of watching you; and swing me suddenly /

• Binding: Hardcover

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