SELECTED POEMS OF WILLIAM BARNES by William Barnes, edited by Geoffrey Grigson - 1950

Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1950. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. Very good or better in very good jacket. Very minor rubbing to navy cloth at top right corner of front board and very minor looseness of the spine. Sunning to jacket spine and areas of back cover with spotting, possibly from water, to spine. Minor edgewear to jacket at head and foot of spine. Otherwise a clean copy.

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1950. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Pocket size, 4 3/8 x 6 3/4. B&W frontispiece. 2G. Sewn binding, full cloth-covered boards, in dustjacket. A beautiful little book, bound in real cloth. This is the American edition, but printed (and apparently bound) in Britain by Latimer, Trend & Co. Ltd, Plymouth. The book is opening widely but the sewn binding is firm and the hinges are intact. Cloth and gilt titles are unfaded; a little wear to cloth at lower edges. A rather large mark on one page, light pencil marks on flyleaf, small spot last numbered page, else pretty clean. Pages are lightly toned. Unclipped, soiled dustjacket has sun-darkened spine, a 3/4" tear at bottom edge of front panel, a shorter tear near spine, and edgewear at bottom spine-end. The beauty of the dark blue cloth spine with its gilt titles may lead you to ditch the dustjacket as unworthy of the book.

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1950. Price-clipped dust jacket.. First Edition. Original Cloth. Fiine/Very Good.