Lollingdon downs and other poems, with sonnets.
London.
William Heinemann, [1917].
First edition.
8vo.
[8], 92pp, [2]. Original publisher's blue cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. Without dustwrapper. Housed in later red morocco-backed red cloth slipcase. A trifle rubbed. Leaves browned. Later bookplate of Jessie Stillman Taylor to FEP.
The first British edition (published thirteen days after the American edition) of English poet and novelist John Edward Masefield's (1878-1967) collected of poems and sonnets inspired by his country retreat of Lollingdon Farm, Cholsey, Oxfordshire.
£ 50.00
Antiquates Ref: 27883
