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Penguin Poets series - Cat. D39. Second printing of the true first edition, published in February 1961. A paperback original. Revised and enlarged from the first 1957 edition. ***Near fine in colour-printed thin card wrappers. Covers clean. Edges of wrappers slightly rubbed but uncreased. Spine just slightly browned. No reading creases to the spine. Sewn binding. Spine tight. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions. Paper stock lightly tanned. Pages clean. ***220 pages. 180 mm x 110 mm. ***Contents: Foreword, Poems Selected by the Author, followed by Index of First Lines, and a two-page Penguin catalogue at the back of the book. ***'Since these poems, written at the fairly constant rate of four or five a year since 1914, are here offered to a public considerably larger than they reached in hard-cover form, I have omitted the more baffling or shocking ones. The order is roughly chronological. Messrs Cassell kindly allow me to make this selection from their volumes, all still available, where the remainder of my work appears: "Poems, 1914-1947", "Poems and Satires, 1951", "Poems, 1953", "The Crowning Privilege". They have also permitted me to include fifteen poems from my two most recent volumes published by them. R. G. Deià, Majorca, Spain.' (Quote taken from the author's Foreword). ***'Penguin originally published poetry in the Pelican series, the first being A17 'A Book of English Poetry' in October 1937. Penguin created a separate Penguin Poets series with a selection of Tennyson in June 1941. This was followed by a second volume by Wordsworth nearly two years later, and it was over three years further on, in December 1946, when the third book 'D3' by Burns was published. The first book Tennyson did not have a number. Wordsworth was numbered simply '2', and it was only from the publication of Burns as 'D3' that the series properly took off. Various styles of cover designs were used. Jan Tschichold (Penguin's first typographer) created the cover style from D5. His successor, Hans Schmoller, designed a new cover format - and from D25 (1954) the Poetry books had their distinctive patterned style. These were designed for and first used in the Penguin Music Score series. Elizabeth Frriedlander was the earliest, and best known of the designers, starting the work in 1949. Penguin Modern Poets became a subset of Penguin Poets and began with D61 in April 1962. [Penguin First Editions] ***Second printing of the true first edition, revised and enlarged, in its original card wrappers, in beautiful collector's condition. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.
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