Over the Brazier. Poems.

The Poetry Bookshop, London, 1920. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 2nd Edition. A new revised edition of the author's first book, and the first hardback issue (originally issued in wrappers four years earlier). Slim 8vo. 32pp. Cloth-backed decorated boards featuring a Menin Gate design by Claud Lovat Fraser. Top edge dusty. Endpapers browned. Head and tail of spine and corner tips bumped and a little rubbed. Covers very slightly marked and one binding string to the first gathering snapped. A very good copy in nicked, rubbed and marked, slightly creased, chipped and dusty dust wrapper which repeats the Lovat Fraser design, browned at the spine and at some edges and with the publisher's price sticker to the front panel. Twenty-four poems, divided into two parts: 'Poems Mostly Written at Charterhouse 1910-1914' and 'Poems Written Before La Bassée - 1915'. 1,000 copies were printed. Higginson A1b / Reilly pp 146-7. "When these poems, written between the ages of fourteen and twenty, first appeared, I was serving in France and had no leisure for getting the final proofs altogether as I wanted them. The same year, but too late, I decided on several alterations in the text, including the suppression of two small poems, inexcusable even as early work. These amendations appear in this new edition, but I have left the bulk of the book as it stood" - the author's Foreword to New Edition..