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First edition. Original blue cloth, printed paper labels to head of spine, spare title label tipped-in at rear. A clean, near fine copy. Bookplate of one John Herbert Bankes to front pastedown. Photogravure frontispiece after a portrait by Sherril Schell. Brooke's famously posthumous second collection of poems containing his much quoted, The Soldier. The first edition of 1,000 copies sold out prior to publication. Keynes 6.

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