BROOKE, Rupert.
The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke.
The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke.
With a Memoir.
Stock Code 117411
London, Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd., 1927
Including Brooke's best remembered poems, Tiare Hahiti and The Soldier, with its famous opening line, 'If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is for ever England', as well as his longer poem Grantchester, with its equally famous ending: 'oh! yet Stands the Church clock at ten to three? And is there honey still for tea?'
8vo (19.5 x 13.5 cm); 2 photogravure portraits of the poet by Sherrill Schell, slight spotting to endpapers; contemporary crushed blue morocco, covers ruled in gilt, gilt spine in 6 compartments, faded, all edges gilt, extremities slightly rubbed, very good; clviii, 159, [1]pp.
Keynes 16.
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