9th Apr, 2025 10:30 GMT/BST
Brooke (Rupert).
Four Poems.
London: Scolar Press, 1974, number 95 of 100 copies signed by Geoffrey Keynes, tipped-in facsimiles of Brooke's manuscripts, vellum-backed cloth boards gilt, slipcase, together with:
Idem. Selected Poems. London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1917, portrait frontispiece, 4pp. publisher's advertisements at end, faint age-toning, slight dust-staining to top margin, ownership inscription on front pastedown, original cloth, dust jacket, torn lacking backstrip, together with:
Idem. Lithuania: a Play in one act. London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1935, faint spotting to edge of text block, original cloth, dust jacket, spine sunned, together with:
Idem. "1914" Five Sonnets. London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1915, original printed wrappers and torn envelope, together with:
Idem The Old Vicarage Grantchester, London: Sidgwick and Johnson, 1916, with woodcut by Noel Rooke, original printed wrappers, ink presentation inscription to inside front panel, together with:
Ten others by/about Brooke and a small quantity of related ephemera.
Sold for £120
Estimated at £150 - £250
Auction: Books, Maps & Manuscripts, 9th Apr, 2025
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