Author: Rupert Brooke; Geoffrey Keynes [editor]
Title: The Letters of Rupert Brooke
Description: New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1968. First edition. Cloth. A smart first US edition of this collection of letters from English war poet Rupert Brooke. First US edition. Illustrated with sixteen plates. Collated complete. A collection of the letters of Rupert Chawner Brooke, an English poet known for his idealistic war sonnets written during the First World War, especially "The Soldier". Brooke was a prolific letter writer and, perhaps due to his early death, many of his correspondents kept his letters. Selected and edited by Sir Geoffrey Langdon Keynes, a British surgeon and author who was also a publishing scholar and bibliographer of English literature and English medical history, focusing primarily on William Blake and William Harvey. Keynes attended Rugby School, where he became friends with Brooke, and in 1915 he was appointed literary executor for Brooke's estate. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, very smart with minor wear only. Original unclipped dust wrapper is also very smart with light wear to the extremities and minor sunning to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small mark. Previous owner's bookplate to the front pastedown. Near Fine . Ill.: Not Stated. Near Fine/Near Fine.

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