BLUNDEN, EDMUND; RUPERT BROOKE; WALTER DE LA MARE; JOHN MASEFIELD; [AND] EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON | A Group of Early 20th Century First Editions

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BLUNDEN, EDMUND; RUPERT BROOKE; WALTER DE LA MARE; JOHN MASEFIELD; [AND] EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON 

A Group of Early 20th Century First Editions 

Blunden, Edmund. English Poems. Thavies Inn [London]: Richard Cobden–Sanderson, 1925. 8vo. Half-title. Original full red cloth covered boards, paper label to spine, original tan dustjacket printed in red; toning to endpapers, some toning and chipping to jacket. First edition — Brooke, Rupert. 1914 and Other Poems. London: Sidgwick & Jackson Limited, 1915. 8vo. Photogravure frontispiece portrait. Publisher's original blue cloth, paper label to spine, uncut; some creasing to cloth, two corners just bumped. In custom red quarter morocco over cloth slipcase, spine gilt lettered. The Potter copy. First edition, first issue. Hayward 321. Richard Montgomery Gilchrist Potter (booklabel to front pastedown) — De La Mare, Walter. Songs of Childhood. London. London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1902. 8vo. Quarter cream colored parchment over light blue cloth covered boards, publisher's device to cover in gilt, margins ruled in gilt, spine gilt lettered, top edge gilt; minor toning to boards, spine just sunned. In custom blue cloth covered clamshell case. First edition of the author's first book. Roderick Terry (booklabel to front pastedown) — De La Mare, Walter. The Listeners and Other Poems. London: Constable and Company, 1912. 12mo. Half-title; minor toning. Full burgundy cloth covered boards, upper cover ruled in gilt, upper cover and spine gilt lettered, top edge gilt, original gray paper dustjacket, upper cover and spine lettered in blue; some foxing to endpapers, some toning to jacket. In custom grey linen covered clamshell case. First edition. R.W. King (ownership inscription to front free endpaper) — Masefield, John. Salt–Water Ballads. London: Grant Richards, 1902. 8vo. Half-title; minor toning. Blue cloth covered boards, spine gilt lettered, top edge gilt; spine sunned, minor rubbing. In custom blue quarter morocco slipcase and folding chemise. In a half blue morocco slipcase. First edition, first issue of the author’s first published work, signed by Masefield on the front free endpaper — Robinson, Edwin Arlington. The Man Against the Sky, A Book of Poems. New York: Macmillan Co., 1916. 8vo. Half-title, publisher's advertisements at end. Original full red cloth covered boards, upper cover and sniped ruled and lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. First edition

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Together six fine first editions