Pom Harrington presents this stunning copy in the exceedingly rare dust jacket.
First edition, first impression, the book with the points as called for by Roberts: the title dated and on a cancel, 20pp of ads at the end, and dark blue cloth. There are two known variants of the dust jacket: one has an anonymous blurb composed by the author, is typographic, bears a price, and is very much in the style of Duckworth’s post 1913 jackets.
The other variant, the present, is identical in format to Lawrence’s Love Poems put out by the same firm in February 1913, printed in blue on a linen-effect paper. Notably it has no price, no blurb, and nothing printed on it other than a repeat of what is stamped on the cloth binding beneath. This is in keeping with all examples of pre-1913 Duckworth jackets that we have been able to examine. Roberts does not assign priority to either of the two states.
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