Thomas, Edward (Eastaway, Edward) et al.

An Annual of New Poetry, FIRST EDITION, first impression, half title, title torn to upper edge, leaves uncut, occasional spotting, light age yellowing, peripheral leaves toned, original grey boards and dust jacket, a little foxing, [Eckert p. 259], Constable & Company, [1917]; with Poems, FIRST EDITION, one of 525 copies, photogravure author's portrait, tissue guard, minor spotting, brown paper boards, spine rubbed and partly detached, Selwyn & Blount, 1917, 8vo (2)

*** First work: first edition of an important wartime poetry collection, including eleven poems by Edward Thomas which appeared in print here under his pseudonym 'Edward Eastaway' for the first time, as well as six poems by Robert Frost, in addition to other contributions by Gordon Bottomley, W. H. Davies, John Drinkwater, Wilfred Gibson, T. Sturge Moore, and R. C. Trevelyan. Second work: the first book published under the author's own name.