The Silent Pool And Other Poems.
£20.00
Publisher
Faber and Faber 24 Russell Square.
Place
London
Date
1942
Synopsis
By harold monro (chosen by alida monro).
Item Description
FIRST EDITION IN DUST WRAPPER. 4to. 4.75 x 7.25 inches. 79 pp. In orange card wrapper, in red dust wrapper, which has lightly sunned spine with a few chips. Extremities a little worn and some light foxing of preliminaries and and small stain at foot of some pages; otherwise a very good copy. Harold Monro (1879-1932, born in Brussels and educated at Radley and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, published his first volume of poetry in 1906. He founded the Poetry Magazine and opened the Poetry Bookshop in Bloomsbury in 1913, encouraging young poets. This selection of his verse was made by his second wife, Alida.
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