Search Results: collected poems with a foreword by by edward thomas

Faber & Faber, 1936. ~A few creased lower corners. Inscription dated 1942. Dustwrapper slightly faded on spine and slightly frayed at ends of spine but unclipped and protected in removable clear plastic sleeve. ~Robust packaging. Overseas tracking available on request. . 2nd edn thus. Hardcover. Good+/Good+. 208g. Binding sound, text unmarked.

Paperback / softback. New.

Faber & Faber, 1969. ~Dustwrapper price-clipped but unfaded and protected in removable clear plastic sleeve. ~Robust packaging. All UK orders trackable, others on request.. 10th impress. Hardback. Fine/Near Fine. 190pp. With dustwrapper. Binding sound, text unmarked.

Faber & Faber, 1965. ~Dustwrapper slightly edgeworn but unclipped, unfaded and protected in removable clear plastic sleeve. No ownership marks. ~Robust packagng. Overseas tracking available on request.. 9th impr. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 190pp. Binding sound, text unmarked.

Faber & Faber, 1974. ~Dustwrapper unclipped and protected in removable clear plastic sleeve. ~Robust packaging. Overseas tracking available on request.. 11th impress. Hardback. Fine/Near Fine. 190pp. With dustwrapper. No ownership marks. Binding sound, text unmarked.

London : Faber, 1979. Reprint. Softcover. Near fine paperback copy; wrapper edges very slightly dulled. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 190 pages ; 20 cm. Subjects; English poetry 20th century. English poetry. Literature 20th century poetry collection. Poetry in English, 1900-1945. Thomas, Edward 1878-1917. English literature; 20th century.

Hardback. New.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Hardback. New.

Faber,, [1936]. 8vo., Fourth Edition, some light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, backstrip lightly faded at extreme head and tail else a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter sunned at backstrip and chafed at head and tail. Contains 140 poems: 'Up in the Wind' is now correctly titled and 'The Clouds that are so Light' follows the wording of the second edition. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. The dustwrapper states incorrectly that Collected Poems was first published in 1922. Eckert, p.249.

Selywn & Blount, London, 1920. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition of this posthumous collection, containing one hundred and thirty-six poems. 8vo. xix, 189pp. Blue cloth with a slightly soiled paper spine label. With a tissue-protected portrait frontispiece and facsimile signature. A touch of bruising to the backstrip ends and corner tips, a little light marking to the cloth, the backstrip lightly faded, and with just a trace of toning to the free endpapers. A small area of surface abrasion to the tip of the front free endpaper, probably from where a former dealer pencilled price was erased a little too vigorously. A very good copy, lacking the uncommon dust wrapper. Eckert pp. 246..

London: Selwyn and Blount, Ltd,, 1920. All that Edward Thomas was as a friend lies half-concealed in his poems First edition, first impression, number 22 of 100 copies on japon. This posthumous collection, which includes the few war poems written before Thomas's death at the Battle of Arras in 1917, includes a foreword by fellow poet and close friend Walter de la Mare. De la Mare's memorializes his friend thus: "Thomas has true lovers today; but when the noise of the present is silence - and the drums and tramplings of the war in which he died - his voice will be heard far more clearly; the words of a heart and mind devoted throughout his life to all that can make the world a decent and natural home for the meek and the lovely, the true, the rare, the patient, the independent, and the oppressed". Octavo. Original beige cloth-backed brown paper boards, white title label on spine, blue linen endpapers, fore and lower edges untrimmed. Photogravure portrait frontispiece with tissue guard. Neat 1967 gift… Read More