WALTER DE LA MARE FIRST EDITIONS AT
ASH RARE BOOKS
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London : Constable & Co., (1935). First edition. A handsome collection of De La Mare’s later poetry.
Crown 8vo (21cm). (xvi),(380)pp. Original pale grey-brown cloth, ruled and blocked in blind and gilt; edges a little spotted, but otherwise a very good, crisp, clean and sound copy.

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London : Faber & Faber, (1941). First Rowland Emett illustrated edition. De La Mare’s enduring book of rhymes, first published in 1913 and previously illustrated by Heath Robinson, Lovat Fraser, and others – but here given idiosyncratic treatment by F. R. Emett – Frederick Rowland Emett (1906-1990).
Post 8vo (22cm). 128pp. Illustrations. Original buff cloth, lettered across upper cover and down spine in blue-green; a very good copy in the Emett dust-jacket – a design in yellow, green and tan on white – just lightly worn at tips.

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London : Faber & Faber, (1956). Seventh impression of the original 1943 publication. A sparkling anthology of over 700 passages of poetry and prose as De La Mare explores the differing themes of love – First Love, Grace and Beauty, Eros, The Fever and the Fret, Love Thwarted and Unrequited, Love Betrayed, Love Lamented, Constancy, Love in Grief, and much else besides. Spanning works from Homer to T. S. Eliot, and including Chaucer, Shakespeare, Jonson, Donne, Marvell, Shelley, Keats, Yeats, Blake, Emily Brontë, Oscar Wilde and many more. “From its first page, then, to its last, this book has had for its compass merely my own personal, defective and deficient idea or conception of love. On that, apart from indolence and ignorance, the choice of its every poem, its every fallible statement has depended”.
Demy 8vo (214 x 129mm). cxliv,592pp. Coloured frontispiece, title vignette and black-and-white illustrations by Barnett Freedman (1901-1958). Bound by Zaehnsdorf in a contemporary full crushed russet morocco, banded and gilt; all edges gilt; marbled endpapers; a few extremely faint marks, but a handsome copy. A few interesting pencilled notes by a previous owner.

£125

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