Awake ! And Other Poems by RODGERS W.R - 1941

Secker & Warburg, London, 1941. Reprint. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/Good. Light blue coloured cloth covered boards with dark red coloured titles to the back strip. Plain text dustwrapper with dark red coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. The reprint, of the same year as the first edition, of this author's first book of poetry. Softening and rubbing of the back strip edges with rubbing of the book corners and lower book edges. Foxing of the book panels and book edges, the top being worse than the lower edge. Age toning of the text block edges and pages and there is scattered foxing to the text block edges and throughout the book, though the foxing is primarily greater at the beginning and end of the book. Previous owners name to the top edge of the free front in page. Little chipping of the top dustwrapper edge and all edges show rubbing. sunning to the back strip and lighter sunning to the other dustwrapper panels. Browning to the verso of the… Read More

AWAKE! AND OTHER POEMS, Secker & Warburg, 1941, first edition, (second printing), some light foxing to the covers, else vg in like dust-wrapper save for tanning and soiling to the dust-wrapper spine. The authors first book. Formerly author John Wain's copy with his signature on the front end-paper.

SECKER & WARBURG, LONDON, 1941. Unknown Binding. Acceptable. No dust jacket and worn boards

Secker & Warburg, 1/1/1941. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Foxing to page ends. Clean, unmarked pages. Ships daily.

London: Secker and Warburg, 1941. First edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good Indeed. 7.5" by 5". None. A lovely copy of this volume with selected poems by W. R. Rodgers, the first edition as the first 1940 printing was entirely destroyed by enemy attack during the war. The first edition of this work. First printing thus as the real first printing in 1940 was destroyed entirely by an enemy attack during the Second World War. The first collection of poems by Irish author W. R. Rodgers, highly praised in previous magazine appearances such as in Horizon, The Listener, and the New Statesman and Nation.With unclipped dustwrapper. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally excellent with minor shelfwear. Faint minor marking to front board. Inscribed by a previous owner to front free endpaper. Dustwrapper is unclipped and very smart, with only minor shelfwear and sunning to spine. Internally, firmly bound. Near Fine

London: Secker & Warburg, 1941. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First published edition (first printing destroyed in a bombing raid). Fine in price-clipped dustwrapper with very slightly toned spine, else fine. Irish poet's first book.