[Rarebooks] FS: Gerard Manley Hopkins's First Book, Inscribed by John Masefield to Rupert Brooke's Mother

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HOPKINS, Gerard Manley. BRIDGES, Robert (editor). POEMS OF  GERARD
MANLEY  HOPKINS NOW FIRST PUBLISHED. London: Humphrey Milford  (1918).
First  Edition.  Edited  with notes by Poet Laureate  Robert  Bridges.
Original  cloth-backed  blue  boards with printed paper  spine  label.
First  edition of Hopkins's first book, which consisted of 750 copies.
Illustrated  with  two  photogravure  portraits by  Emery  Walker  and
manuscript  facsimiles.  An  interesting   association  copy  of  this
important  and  valuable  book  INSCRIBED  and  SIGNED  on  the  front
endpaper  in  the hand of John Masefield to the mother of poet  Rupert
Brooke  from Masefield and his wife: "For Mrs Brooke,/from Constance +
John  Masefield--/June. 1924." Occasional light foxing to contents and
some  to the blue boards; spine label rubbed but most lettering  still
intact.  In  1930 Masefield succeeded Robert Bridges as Poet  Laureate
of  England.  A  significant  association copy  linking,  among  other
things,  two  of the greatest Georgian poets. Very Good,  lacking  the
scarce dustwrapper.                                           $6500.00

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