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7 x 5.5", 3/4 gilt ruled dark blue leather, raised bands with gilt lettering and floral decorations, blue boards, teg, 63pp. Outer hinges worn, spine tip missing small piece, corners bumped and worn/scuffed, lower page edges have a small area of staining, small spots on lower margins of lst few pp else very good condition. This notice was bound in "Unique First Edition of Rupert Brooke's Poems issued by Doubleday Page & Co. in anticipation of getting the American Publication rights Messrs. John Lane & Co. obtaining the same from Mr. Brooke's executors this edition was not regularly issued. Eighty-seven copies were printed". John Lane & Co. were awarded the rights, not Doubleday. FIRST EDITION. VERY SCARCE TITLE.

This collection of poems includes Rupert Brooke's famous war sonnets and captures his idealistic view of the First World War.