Author: WILLIAM EMPSON.
Title: Poems.
Description: Chatto & Windus, London, 1935. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition (first printing) of the author's first collection of verse. Slim 8vo. viii, 48pp. Quarter cloth lettered in gold at the spine and with the publisher's red top edge stain. Corner tips bumped and with a little toning to the half title and to the final text leaf. A very good copy in the uncommon dust wrapper, with a handsome unaccredited two-colour design, non-price-clipped but lightly tanned with several tiny fractions of loss from the spine panel ends and an inch-long slit to one natural fold. Thirty poems followed by ten pages of notes. Very Good/Very Good.

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