gibson wilfrid wilson abercrombie lascelles (5 Ergebnisse)

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New.

Zustand: New.

Various Editions. Near fine paperback copy; edges very slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, and clean. Physical description; 4 issues ; 25 cm. Notes; Vol. 1, no. 1 Feb.(1914)-v. 1, no. 4 (Dec. 1914). "A quarterly publication of the poems of Rupert Brooke, John Drinkwater, Wilfrid Wilson Gibson, Lascelles Abercrombie." Contents; Vol 1, no. 4 contains first publication of The soldier / Rupert Brooke. Subjects; English poetry 20th century Periodicals. Dymock poets ; Periodicals. Verse drama, English 20th century ; Periodicals. 1 Kg.

First editions, first impressions, one number signed by W. W. Gibson and another possibly initialled by Lascelles Abercrombie. Four numbers comprising the complete run of New Numbers by the "Dymock Poets" are present here, together with a reprint of the first number. The periodical presents 41 poems, of which 15 are by Rupert Brooke. The majority of the poems in Brooke's 1914 and Other Poems first appeared here, including the first publication of his famous poem, "The Soldier". Keynes, in his bibliography of Brooke, notes that demand for the first number "exceeded the supply" and that a reprint was required. This set includes both first and second impressions of the first number, together with an autograph letter signed from Gibson to an unidentified recipient enclosing "another copy of No I" and regretting that "unfortunately, I am unable to send a copy of the first edition". Gibson requests that "if you should come across any more possible subscribers, will you ask them to subscribe direct to us? We make a little more on it that way." Gibson concludes with biographical information "I have been married nearly six months now; and it has been six months of solid happiness - such happiness as I scarcely thought possible. We live in a snug little thatched and half-timbered cottage". A half-title, title page and contents are provided in the final number for those who wished to bind together the separate numbers. This was frequently done, and a set in original wrappers is rare. Keynes, pp. 115-17 5 vols, octavo. Original blue-grey wrappers, front and rear wrappers lettered in black. Autograph letter signed ("Wilfrid Wilson Gibson"), to Miss [Mary] Gorrie, dated 31 May 1914, single sheet of wove paper (256 x 201 mm), written on both sides, headed notepaper ("Greenway, Ledbury"). Bookseller's label to front wrapper of numbers 2 and 3. Inscription to title page of number 1 ("To Mary Gorrie, April 1914, J. P. G."). Some light browning and soiling to wrappers, minor loss to spines, some occasional foxing, newspaper clipping ("Rupert Brooke's Poetry" on the announcement of the poet's death) with adhesive paper strip to half title of number 4; a very good set.

FIRST EDITIONS, occasional light spotting, more so in final two volumes, pp. 59; [iii], 60-108; [iv], 109-152; 153-206, [6], 4to, original blue-grey wrappers printed in black, first number with Contents page for whole run laid in at front along with Elkin Mathews prospectus for Gibson's work, a few light spots to covers, the third number with a very faint pink mark to front, this volume also with a short split at foot of upper joint, last number with faint crease to top corner of front (also to half-title), a very good set. The literary journal of the Dymock Poets, preceding the emergence of Robert Frost and Edward Thomas, and of most significance for the presence of fifteen poems by Rupert Brooke across its four issues including, in the final number, his five war sonnets, which appear for the first time here (and whose composition delayed its publication, Guy Cuthbertson notes in the ODNB, to early 1915). Brooke's contributions outweigh those of the other contributors, slightly in number but vastly in significance. (Keynes, pp.115-7; Cooper 561-4).