INSCRIBED BY THE POET TO JOHN MASEFIELD

BRIDGES, Robert ~ October and other poems. Inscribed from one Poet Laureate to another in the year of publication.

FIRST UK PRINTING. William Heinemann, London: 1920.

Small 8vo., publisher's sage green boards with contrasting paper label lettered in blue to spine; outer edges untrimmed; housed in the original printed dustwrapper, priced 5'- net to spine; THE BOOK a very good copy, some light bumped to edges of boards and to spine tips, a little rubbed and chipped at head, some light spots internally, mostly to the outer edge of text block and prelims; offsetting to endleaves and vertical crease to ffep; THE WRAPPER similarly very good, with some light chipping to ends of spine and folds, just touching the title lettering. The wrapper is protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. FIRST UK EDITION. This copy inscribed by the poet laureate to the title page: "To John Masefield / from Robert Bridges / March 26. 1980 / this miscellany". The final word incorporates a particularly elaborate flourishing swirl to the final letter.

BINDING: Hardcover
CONDITION: Very good
JACKET: Very good