The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke.

£275 · Offered by Shapero Rare Books

A handsome copy of Brooke's collected poems in contemporary crushed blue morocco, prefaced with a life of the poet by his friend Edward Marsh. Including Brooke's best remembered poems, Tiare Hahiti and The Soldier, with its famous opening line, 'If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is for ever England', as well as his longer poem Grantchester, with its equally famous ending: 'oh! yet Stands the Church clock at ten to three? And is there honey still for tea?' 8vo (19.5 x 13.5 cm); 2 photogravure portraits of the poet by Sherrill Schell, slight spotting to endpapers; contemporary crushed blue morocco, covers ruled in gilt, gilt spine in 6 compartments, faded, all edges gilt, extremities slightly rubbed, very good; clviii, 159, [1]pp. Keynes 16.

• Binding: Hardcover

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