The Collected Poems of A. E. Housman by Housman, A.E

London: Jonathan Cape 1939, 1st printing. (Hardcover) 256pp. Very good in good dust jacket. Index. The dust jacket is chipped and edgeworn with an inch-long closed tear at the top of the spine and two inch-long closed tears to the front panel that have been tape repaired from the inside, and there is a previous owner's book plate on the front free endpaper. "This is both the first and the definitive edition of A. E. Housman's collected poetry. It contains the whole of A Shropshire Lad, Last Poems, More Poems, and the verses which were printed in A. E. H., Mr. Laurence Housman's memoir of his brother. There are also a number of poems which have not previously appeared in volume form, and the collection is rounded off with three chorus translations from the Greek, which originally appeared in Odes from the Greek Dramatists, edited by A. W. Pollard". (Poetry, Poetry, War Poetry).