London: Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd., 1916.
Price: $350.00
Hardcover. First English edition, first issue (with the date on the spine label neatly changed in ink from 1915 to 1916). Preface by Henry James. Octavo. xlii, 180pp. Illustrated with a frontispiece plate of Brooke. Clothcovered boards, topedge gilt,printed (and correctly dated) spine label tipped-on to final page of text. Large but handsome bookplate on front pastedown and penciled owner signature on front fly. Spine and topedge of rear cover sunned, spine label toned with a small chip and a few tiny splits, frontispiece tissue guard has toned and offset onto the adjacent pages (seemingly common with this title), a very good copy. Rupert Brooke's last work, published posthumously by his friend Henry James, and detailing his travels to the United States and Canada during World War I.
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