More Poems
by Housman, A. E
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Bromsgrove, West Midlands, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Jonathan Cape, 1936. Hardback. First edition. First printing. Good. DW is ink-stained and damaged with extensive sellotape reinforcement. No annotations but inscriptions.of previous owners inside front cover and on front end page. With a portrait. Posthumous poems edited by his brother Laurence Housman. This copy is bound in publisher's original blue cloth covered boards (badly foxed) with faded gilt titling to the spine and the upper board. Alfred Edward (A.E.) Housman was a noted classical scholar and a poet. To the wider public he is best known for his poem "A Shropshire Lad" (1896), while to his fellow classicists it is his critical editing of Manilius that has earned him enduring fame. Untrimmed hand cut .pages. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 71pp text with portrait frontis by Francis Dodd. .
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- Bookseller
- David Edward Hellawell (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2150
- Title
- More Poems
- Author
- Housman, A. E
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London: Jonathan Cape, 1936
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Housman Posthumous Poems QSE
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