Poems.

Empson (William)

Poems.

Description: FIRST EDITION, title-vignette, pp. viii, 48, crown 8vo, original quarter black cloth with red cloth sides, backstrip gilt lettered with a little rubbing at tips, a couple of corners very gently knocked, top edge red, others untrimmed, some light spotting to edges and endpapers, dustjacket with a colour-printed version of the title-vignette (possibly by Raymond McGrath?), lightly soiled and spotted with the head of backstrip panel a little ragged, good

Publication Details: Chatto & Windus, 1935

Notes: The copy of author, bookseller and publisher, David Garnett - with his library label to the front pastedown.Empson's first collection of verse, following two works of literary criticism: 'Many of Mr. Empson's poems are familiar to readers of contemporary poetry through their appearance in anthologies [...] but they are here for the first time collected in book form' (blurb).

Bibliography: (Hayward 'English Poetry' 344)