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EDWARD THOMAS. The Woodland Life. William Blackwood and Sons, London and Edinburgh 1897. First Edition, second state. 234pp + ii publisher's advertisements. Decorated olive-green buckram lettered in gilt at spine and in dark green at upper board. With a captioned tissue-protected frontispiece. A hint of darkening to backstrip and board edges and some light spotting to several preliminary leaves. Embossed publisher’s compliments stamp to corner of title and dedication leaves. Former owner details to a blank preliminary, one inked (dated 1905) and the other in pencil. A super copy of Thomas' uncommon first book, published when he was nineteen years old and comprising eleven essays and a diary covering the period April 1895-April 1896. See Eckert 185-187. £350

EDWARD THOMAS. The Woodland Life. William Blackwood and Sons, London and Edinburgh 1897. First edition, an un-recorded variant of Thomas’ most uncommon first book, which is not noted in Eckert, but generally corresponds to the second issue but with cream endpapers, instead of the typical black. 234pp + ii publisher's advertisements. Decorated olive-green buckram lettered in gilt at spine and in black at upper board. Publisher’s imprint (“Edinburgh”) in gilt to base of spine. Frontispiece. A little spotting and browning to one blank preliminary and some very light occasional spotting throughout. An unusually crisp copy of Thomas' uncommon first book. £350

EDWARD THOMAS. Windsor Castle. Described by Edward Thomas and pictured by Ernest Haslehust. Blackie, ‘Beautiful England’ series, London, Glasgow & Bombay 1910. The second edition, issued the same year as the first edition and identifiable as such only by the addition of three further titles to Beautiful England series advertisement. Small 4to. 56pp. Paper-covered boards with an in-set colour plate (a detail of the frontispiece). With a frontispiece and eleven captioned colour plates. Spine ends a little chipped, and with some chafing to extremities. Endpapers and pastedown lightly browned and spotted, and with a light scattering of further spotting to the fore edge. Former owner name inked to the front free endpaper. A nice bright copy. See Eckert pp. 207-8. £10

EDWARD THOMAS. Rest and Unrest. Essays. Duckworth, London 1910. First edition (Eckert’s first issue, with the gilt top edge and correct publisher’s imprint to the base of the backstrip). Small 8vo. 191pp. Vertical ribbed green cloth. Cloth lightly marked in places, with a little bruising and wear to the backstrip ends. Binding just a fraction tender in places. Free endpapers browned and with just a touch of spotting to two or three preliminary and concluding leaves. Contemporary (1911) former owner details neatly inked to the front free endpaper. Very good. No dust wrapper. Nine narrative essays, seven of which here make their first appearance in print. See Eckert p.204. £40

EDWARD THOMAS. Richard Jefferies. His Life and Work. Hutchinson, London [1911]. The second edition, a variant issue not noted by Eckert, yet almost certainly preceding it, issued without a half-title or advertisement leaf showing uniform volumes, and with a different price. 8vo. 352pp. Plum-coloured cloth lettered and ruled in gold at the spine and with the publisher's device gilt-stamped to the upper board. Top edge gilt. Portrait frontispiece. Some spotting to the free endpapers and to one or two preliminary and concluding leaves. A very good copy spotting and slightly soiled dust wrapper, with some notable toning to the spine panel which obscured some of the lettering. The first edition of Thomas' study of Jefferies was published in 1909 and included, along with the frontispiece, thirteen illustrations and a folding map. These are not included in this second edition although the dust wrapper still states "with illustrations and a map". The two editions were produced in different sizes so the wrapper cannot be left over from the 1909 stock and therefore the presence of this text must simply be an oversight. Eckert states that this second edition was issued on 6 October 1911 as part of 'Hutchinson's 1/- Net library’. The price of the spine panel on this particular dust wrapper is obscured by the toning, but an identical example we have seen displays a price of “2/- Net", suggesting it was issued prior to Eckert's state (which would also explain the absence of the advertising leaf). Miller & Matthews E23.1[b]. £50

EDWARD THOMAS. Rose Acre Papers, including essays from Horae Solitariae.  Duckworth, London 1910. First edition, variant binding lettered in black rather than gilt and without the gilt top edge and decorated endpapers. 186pp + iv publisher's advertisements. Small 8vo. A really lovely, bright copy, complete with the original dust wrapper (featuring a photographic portrait of Thomas), the jacket dust-marked, chipped with a little loss to foot of front panel and a little rubbed. Scarce thus. £225

EDWARD THOMAS. The Tenth Muse. Martin Secker, London [1917?]. Probably the second state of the third issue, without the memoir by John Freeman (Eckert suggests that this second state was probably published prior to the first, and upon the death of Thomas the memoir added). 8vo. 141pp + [ii] publisher’s catalogue. Blue cloth with dulled gilt lettering to spine and a treble blind border to upper board. Top edge dust marked with a short tear to the cloth at rear gutter. Edges and margins of several preliminary leaves lightly spotted. A dusty copy, but really quite crisp internally. £20

EDWARD THOMAS. The Tenth Muse. Martin Secker, London [1917]. Third issue with a new prefatory eight page memoir of Thomas by John Freeman. Vii, 141pp + ii publisher's advertisements. Blue smooth-weave cloth with a lightly tanned paper spine label. Endpapers lightly browned and with some spotting to a dozen preliminary and concluding leaves. A nice bright copy of a book which originally formed chapter eight of Thomas' 1910 book Feminine Influence on the Poets and consists of a series of brief studies of the love poems of English poets from Chaucer to Shelley, here slightly revised. See Eckert p.220. £35

EDWARD THOMAS. Algernon Charles Swinburne. A Critical Study. Mitchell Kennerley, New York 1912. The first American edition, published in December 1912, a month after the English edition. Tall 8vo. 242pp. Dark blue cloth lettered in gold at the spine and with gold-stamped lettering, a double-border, and an interlinking decoration to the upper board. Tissue-protected portrait frontispiece (from a painting by Rossetti). Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. The cloth very slightly discoloured at the backstrip, and a little marked at the rear board. A small nick to the cloth at the head of the spine. The half-title slightly spotted. Many leaves uncut at the fore edge. Handsome former owner bookplate to the front pastedown, and a tiny dealer plate to the base of the front free endpaper. A super unopened copy of the uncommon American edition, issued as part of a series of critical studies of famous authors (Thomas’ study of Walter Pater later appeared in the same series). No dust wrapper. See Eckert p.222. £150

EDWARD THOMAS. Lafcadio Hearn. A biography. Constable ‘Modern Biographies’ series, London 1912. First Edition, second issue, with a leaf of advertisements tipped-in before the half-title but otherwise identical to the first issue (which was itself preceded by the American issue, published six days earlier). Small 8vo. 96pp including five pages of publisher’s advertisements. Green cloth, gilt lettered and decorated at the spine, and with blind-stamped lettering and decoration to the upper board. Portrait frontispiece. Free endpapers very lightly toned and with a tiny hint of spotting to occasional leaf margins. A virtually fine copy in a somewhat distressed example of the uncommon thin paper dust wrapper, missing the lower half of the spine panel, with several further tiny fractions of loss from two or three extremities, and the front panel-spine panel joint really quite tender. Thomas’ biography of the celebrated Japanophile; uncommon in a dust wrapper. See Eckert p.224-25. £50

EDWARD THOMAS. Lafcadio Hearn. A biography. Constable ‘Modern Biographies’ series, London 1912. First edition, second issue, with a leaf of advertisements tipped-in before the half-title but otherwise identical to the first issue (which was itself preceded by the American issue, published six days earlier). Small 8vo. 96pp including five pages of publisher’s advertisements at the rear. Portrait frontispiece. A touch of wear to the backstrip ends. The free endpapers very lightly toned and with a tiny hint of spotting to very occasional leaf margins. Two former owner notations neatly inked to the front free endpaper. A virtually fine copy. No dust wrapper. Thomas’ biography of the celebrated Japanophile. See Eckert p.224-25. £25

EDWARD THOMAS. The Country. B.T.Batsford, 'Fellowship Books' series, London [1913]. First edition. Small 8vo. 59pp. Blue cloth with gilt lettering, rule and decoration. Top edge gilt. Silk place marker. Backstrip faded and just the faintest hint of fox spotting to the free endpapers and to one or two preliminary and concluding leaves. A very crisp and bright copy. No dust wrapper, as issued. £35

EDWARD THOMAS. In Pursuit of Spring. With six tipped-in colour plates by Ernest Hazelhurst [i.e. Ernest Haslehust] with captioned tissue protectors. Thomas Nelson, London 1914. First edition, first state. 8vo. 301pp. Blue vertically ribbed cloth, gilt lettered at the spine and upper board with a small gilt ornament. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Map-illustrated endpapers. The six plates are correctly signed ‘E.W.Haslehust’ but the artist’s name is spelt incorrectly on the List of Illustrations page (seemingly a common occurrence with Haslehust contributions). Just a touch of darkening to the cloth at the board extremities, and a little light wear to the spine ends and corner tips. A single tiny area of surface abrasion to the head of the front free endpaper.  A lovely crisp copy, lacking the fugitive dust wrapper. An account of February 1913 bicycle tour from London to the Quantock Hills; and significantly the book which convinced Robert Frost that Thomas was in fact a poet, upon finishing it Frost urged his friend to turn his attention henceforth to verse. See Eckert pp.232-233. £350

EDWARD THOMAS contributes reviews of Captain William Dampier’s Voyages, and Charles Doughty’s The Dawn in Britain to an issue of the periodical The Bookman. Vol. xxi, no. 186, March 1907. Hodder & Stoughton, London 1907. First edition. 4to. Paginated 239-282 and bookended with advertisements. Stapled card wrappers, a little chafed and soiled, and with a little spotting to two adjacent leaves. A nice crisp copy. This issue also includes an unaccredited double-page spread on Edward Thomas as part of the regular ‘The Bookman Gallery’ feature, complete with a photograph of the author. The supplemental portrait of Sir Walter Scott is not laid-in. £15

EDWARD THOMAS contributes reviews of Maurice Maeterlinck’s Life and Flowers and Philip Sidney’s The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia to an issue of the periodical The Bookman. Vol. xxiii, no. 190, July 1907. Hodder & Stoughton, London 1907. First edition. 4to. Paginated 117-150 and bookended with advertisements. Stapled card wrappers, the staples rusted, and the wrappers a little toned at the margins, and with a former owner initials neatly stamped to the base of the upper wrapper. A nice crisp copy. The supplemental plate of Eton is not laid-in. £15

EDWARD THOMAS contributes a review of Constance Elizabeth Maud’s translation of Alma Strettele’s Memoirs of Mistral to an issue of the periodical The Bookman. Vol. xxiii, no. 198, March 1908. Hodder & Stoughton, London 1908. First edition. 4to. Paginated 221-268 and bookended with advertisements. Stapled card wrappers, the staples rusted and partially defective, and the wrappers lightly toned at the margins. A short tear to the head of two concluding leaves (impacting no text), and with a former owner initials neatly stamped to the base of the upper wrapper. A nice crisp copy. The supplemental portrait of Charles Dickens is not laid-in. £15

EDWARD THOMAS contributes a reviews of W.H.Hudson’s The Land’s End, and Eleanor G.Hayden’s Islands of the Vale (the latter unaccredited) to an issue of the periodical The Bookman. Vol. xxxiv, no. 203, August 1908. Hodder & Stoughton, London 1908. First edition. 4to. Paginated 163-200 and bookended with advertisements. Stapled card wrappers, the staples rusted and partially defective, and the wrappers lightly toned at the margins. Former owner initials neatly stamped to the base of the upper wrapper. A nice crisp copy. Laid-in is the supplemental photographic portrait of Stanley J.Weyman, as issued. £15

EDWARD THOMAS contributes his short story Crowbit to an issue of the periodical The English Review. Edited by Austin Harrison. Volume X, No. 4 (i.e. number 40), March 1912. Tall 8vo. Card wrappers, chipped at spine ends and lightly soiled and creased. A nice bright copy.  The first appearance in print of this six-page Thomas story, which was subsequently collected under the title Helen in his posthumous volume Cloud Castle and other Papers (1922). £35

EDWARD THOMAS contributes a review of W.H.Davies’ collection The True Traveller to an issue of the periodical The Bookman. Vol. xlii, no. 248, May 1912. Hodder & Stoughton, London 1912. First edition. 4to. Paginated 49-96 and bookended with advertisements. Stapled card wrappers, lightly creased at several extremities, and the staples rusted. Former owner initials neatly stamped to the base of the upper wrapper. A nice crisp copy. Laid-in is the supplemental portrait of Robert Browning, as issued. £15

EDWARD THOMAS contributes a review of Githa Sowerby’s play Rutherford and Son to an issue of the periodical The Bookman. Vol. xlii, no. 249, June 1912. Hodder & Stoughton, London 1912. First edition. 4to. Paginated 97-142 and bookended with advertisements. Stapled wrappers, lightly creased, the staples rusted and partially defective resulting in the wrappers being separate from the rest of the binding. Former owner initials neatly stamped to the base of the upper wrapper. A good copy. Separate colour Butler & Tanner advertisement sheet laid-in, as issued. £15

EDWARD THOMAS contributes reviews of Charles Doughty’s The Clouds and Clinton Scollard’s Songs of a Syrian Lover to an issue of the periodical The Bookman. Vol. xlii, no. 250, July 1912. Hodder & Stoughton, London 1912. First edition. 4to. Paginated 143-184 and bookended with advertisements. Stapled card wrappers, the staples rusted and partially defective with the wrappers detached from the rest of the binding. Former owner initials neatly stamped to the base of the upper wrapper. A good copy. Laid-in is the supplemental presentation plate portrait of Miss M.E.Braddon, as issued. £15

EDWARD THOMAS contributes a review of Richard Curle’s Shadows Out of the Crowd to a special double issue of the periodical The Bookman. Vol. XLIII, No. 253. October 1912. 4to. Internally stapled card wrappers, spotted, soiled and chipped with one small area of loss, and some chipping to spine. About a good copy. The supplement, a portrait of James McNeill Whistler, is laid-in, as issued. £20

EDWARD THOMAS contributes a review of S.Baring Gould’s The Church Revival: Thoughts Thereon and Reminiscences to an issue of the periodical The Bookman. Vol. XLVI, No. 272. May 1914. 4to. Stapled card wrappers, the staples rusted and defective and the wrappers lightly rubbed, chafed and dust marked. A nice crisp copy. £20

EDWARD THOMAS contributes a review of volumes XXI and XXII of The Collected Works of William Morris to an issue of the periodical The Bookman. Vol. VII, No. 281. February 1915. 4to. Stapled card wrappers. The staples rusted and the rear wrapper very lightly dust soiled. Very good. £20 

EDWARD THOMAS. Poems by Edward Thomas ("Edward Eastaway"). Selwyn & Blount, London 1917. The second edition, issued one month after the original October 1917 first edition and identical to it, save for the advertisements leaves, a single tiny textual correction and the identification of the poet's real name. Slim 8vo. 63pp + [ii] publisher's advertisements at the rear. Paper-covered boards with the paper spine label absent. Tissue-protected photographic portrait frontispiece of the author taken by Duncan Williams. Some toning, rubbing and wear to the boards, and some quite light bruising to the spine ends. A touch of browning and spotting to the pastedowns and free endpapers, and some off-set browning from the tissue to the margins of both the frontispiece and the title page. A good copy. Sixty-four poems, the author's first regularly published collection of verse (this second edition being the first collection published under his real name). £75

EDWARD THOMAS. Poems by Edward Thomas (“Edward Eastaway”). Selwyn & Blount, London 1917. Third edition (published two months after the October 1917 first edition and identical to it in every respect bar a single tiny textual correction to the printer’s imprint). 8vo. 63pp. Paper-covered boards with a slightly rubbed and tanned paper spine label. Tissue-protected portrait frontispiece of the author taken by Duncan Williams. Spine ends and corner tips a little rubbed, and with several small areas of surface abrasion. A little light spotting and browning to the endpapers. A very good copy. Sixty-four poems, a swift reprint of the author’s first regularly published collection of verse (the first edition of October 1917 was in the press when Thomas was killed in France). See Eckert p.241-245. £175

EDWARD THOMAS. Collected Poems. With a ten-page foreword by Walter de la Mare. Selywn & Blount, London 1920. First edition of this posthumous collection, containing one hundred and thirty-six poems. 8vo. xix, 189pp. Blue cloth with a slightly soiled paper spine label. With a tissue-protected portrait frontispiece and facsimile signature. A touch of bruising to the backstrip ends and corner tips, a little light marking to the cloth, the backstrip lightly faded, and with just a trace of toning to the free endpapers. A small area of surface abrasion to the tip of the front free endpaper, probably from where a former dealer penciled price was erased a little too vigorously. A very good copy, lacking the uncommon dust wrapper. Eckert pp. 246. £150

EDWARD THOMAS. Cloud Castle and Other Papers. With a two-page foreword by W.H.Hudson.  Duckworth, London 1922. First edition. 8vo. 197pp. Spine ends just a little rubbed,  top edge lightly dust marked and with a little browning to endpapers and miscellaneous blemishing to half-title. A lengthy vertical crease to the rear free endpaper. A nice crisp copy in a poor example of the uncommon dust wrapper, separated into several parts and with some poorly executes taped repairs. Fifteen essays, many of them appearing here in bookform for the first time, and including two extracts from his only novel, The Happy-go-Lucky Morgans specially revised by the author for inclusion in this book. Hudson's foreword remains incomplete - he died shortly after accepting the commission, leaving but a fragment. £50

EDWARD THOMAS. Cloud Castle and Other Papers. With a foreword by W.H.Hudson.  Duckworth, London 1922. First edition. 8vo. 197pp. Blue cloth lettered in gold at spine and in blind at upper board, with the publisher’s motif blind-stamped to the base of the rear board. A hint of rubbing to cloth at spine ends, and some light spotting to edges and preliminary leaves. A very crisp and bright copy, lacking the uncommon dust wrapper. (See Eckert p. 250). £35

EDWARD THOMAS. Cloud Castle and Other Papers. With a foreword by W.H.Hudson. Duckworth, London 1922. The second issue, in lighter blue cloth with the spine lettering stamped in black instead of gold, and without the blind-stamped publisher’s motif to the rear board. 8vo. 197pp. Spine ends and corner tips just a little rubbed, and with some spotting to edges, preliminary and concluding leaves and occasional leaf margins. Former owner bookplate to the front pastedown. Quite a bright copy. No dust wrapper. (See Eckert p. 251, who notes this second issue, but has not seen it). £15

EDWARD THOMAS. Cloud Castle and Other Papers. With a foreword by W.H.Hudson. Dutton, New York [1923]. The first American edition. 8vo. Covers just a little spotted. A bright copy. Fifteen essays. £15

EDWARD THOMAS [Selected Essays]. George G.Harrap, ‘Essays of To-Day and Yesterday’ series, London 1926. First edition. Small 8vo. 60pp + [i] bibliography. Blue cloth with white lettering to the spine and upper board (this binding variant not noted by Eckert). Spine ends rubbed and with a touch of spotting to preliminary leaves and to occasional margins. A strip of very light partial browning to the free endpapers. Former owner bookplate and inked name of the same. A nice crisp copy housed in a tanned and chipped patterned later issue dust wrapper (advertising twenty-seven titles on the front flap, as opposed to the seventeen mentioned within). An introductory note by F.H.P[ritchard]. precedes eight nature essays collected from Light and Twilight, Cloud Castle, Rose Acre Papers and Rest and Unrest. The seventeenth volume of Harrap’s Letters of To-Day and Yesterday series. See Eckert pp. 252-3. £35

EDWARD THOMAS. [Selected Essays]. George G.Harrap & Co. Ltd., 'Essays of To-Day and Yesterday' series, London 1926. First edition in a later state binding, not noted by Eckert. Small 8vo. 60pp + [i] bibliography. Bound in brown imitation leather, lettered in black at the spine and upper board. The absence of the coloured bordering, rule and ornamentation noted by Eckert suggests that this was one of the later issues, offered for sale as a lesser price than previously. A touch of wear to the spine ends, some light browning to the free endpapers, with some spotting to several preliminary and concluding leaves and, quite lightly, throughout. Former owner name neatly inked to the front free endpaper. A nice bright copy. An introduction note by F.H.P[ritchard] precedes eight essays gathered from his previous collections Light and Twilight, Clouds Castle, Rose Acre Papers, and Rest and Unrest. See Eckert pp. 252-53. £20

EDWARD THOMAS. The Childhood of Edward Thomas. A Fragment of Autobiography. With a preface by Julian Thomas, the author’s younger brother. Faber, London 1938.  First edition. 8vo. 152pp. Covers a little tanned at some edges and with a small bump to the tip of one corner and some light spotting to the margins of endpapers and pastedowns. Two short creases to the corner of the front free endpaper. A bright copy. No jacket.  £40

EDWARD THOMAS. Modern Poets in Focus: 1. Edited by Dannie Abse. The Woburn Press, London 1973. The second edition, and first casebound issue (originally issued in 1971 as a paperback only). 8vo. 145pp. Upper board lifting a fraction. A very good copy in dust wrapper, just fractionally faded at the spine panel. Verse selections from six poets, each preceded with a five to seven page critical essay by Abse, occasionally augmented with prose by the subject. The poets featured are Edward Thomas (twelve poems), Ted Hughes, David Wright, Sidney Keyes, Douglas Dunn and Herbert Williams. £20

EDWARD THOMAS. Rain. Thomas’ eighteen line poem, hand-set and printed at the press of Eric & Joan Stevens, London [1979?]. A single sheet, folded to form four pages. A little marked and creased. Uncommon. £35

EDWARD THOMAS. The Fear of Death. A story. The Tragara Press, Edinburgh 1982. The first separate edition of this eight-page story, which was originally printed in H.W.Massingham’s weekly newspaper The Nation in October 1912. Limited to ninety-five numbered copies (this being #23), hand-printed on Barcham Green ‘Langley’ Paper. Slim 4to. Unpaginated. Plain card wrappers. Some occasional fairly light fox spotting. A very good copy in the original marbled paper dust wrapper, very lightly rubbed at the yapped upper edge. £75

EDWARD THOMAS. Bright Clouds. A poem. The Cherub Press [Solihull], 1984. A separate edition of Thomas’ eighteen line poem, handset and printed on Japanese handmade paper and tipped to a folding lettered card. Half a dozen very faint fox spots to the text. A very good copy of a delightful and uncommon piece of Edward Thomas ephemera, probably produced in very small numbers. Thomas wrote the poem in early June 1916 whilst in a weekend of leave from Hare Hall camp in Romford where he was serving as an instructor in map-reading with the Artists Rifles. £30

EDWARD THOMAS (writing as ‘Edward Eastaway’). Six Poems. Belmont Hall, Malvern 2017. A handsome private press edition; printed, published and illustrated by Andrew Judd and issued in an edition of 150 numbered copies (this being #24) to commemorate the centenary of Thomas’ death. 6pp sewn into plain black wrappers. With one handsome tipped-in drawing. A fine copy in fine dust wrapper, with an elegant decorate title label to the front panel. Includes the poems Sedge-Warblers, This is no case of petty right or wrong, Aspens, A Private, Cock-Crow and Beauty, all originally issued by James Guthrie’s Pear Tree Press in a limited edition of 100 copies – the only book of Thomas’ verse issued in his lifetime. £50

EDWARD THOMAS. Four Letters to Frederick Evans. The Tragara Press, Edinburgh 1978. First edition, hand-printed and limited to 150 numbered copies to mark the centenary of Thomas' birth. This copy is un-numbered and marked "complimentary". 8vo. Sewn card wrappers. With a photographic portrait frontispiece of Evans. The wrappers just a little chafed at the bottom edge and with a minor indentation to the cover. Internally in fine state. The text of four Edward Thomas letters written between July 1940 and October 1912 to City of London bookseller Frederick Evans, now most celebrated as the discoverer of Aubrey Beardsley. £20

HELEN THOMAS (Edward Thomas interest). As it Was. William Heinemann Ltd., London 1931. The second edition, originally published in 1926 and here re-issued as a uniform companion volume to the follow-up, World Without End (1931). Small 8vo. 116pp. Top edge dust soiled. The cloth chafed and a little chipped at the backstrip ends,  lightly marked in places, and with a little further wear to the corner tips. A nice crisp copy of Helen Thomas’ first volume of memoirs about her late husband, with a printed dedication to the subject, E[dward] T[homas]. This edition includes the text which was expurgated from the 1926 second impression. £15

EDWARD THOMAS. Harry Coombes contributes a lengthy review of two books concerning Edward Thomas (Edward Thomas by William Cooke, and Letters from Edward Thomas to Gordon Bottomley) to an issue of the quarterly periodical The Southern Review. Vol. vii, no. 2, April 1971. Edited by Lewis P.Simpson and Donald E.Stanford. Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge 1971. First edition. Large 8vo. Paginated 345-647. Card wrappers, lightly toned and discoloured. An inkstamp to the inner front wrapper notes this as a ‘contributor’s copy’, and with the neat inkstamp of an unrelated former owner’s initials to the base of the first leaf. A nice crisp copy. £10

EDWARD THOMAS (interest). P.J.Kavanagh. Edward Thomas in Heaven. Poems. Chatto & Windus and The Hogarth Press, London 1974. First edition. This copy signed by the author on the title page. Slim 8vo. 48pp. Card wrappers (not issued in casebound format). A touch of very light marking and chafing to the wrappers, and a small crease to the lower corner of the leaves. Former owner initials neatly inkstamped to the base of the first leaf, and with a small printed slip noting the death of Patrick Kavanagh pasted to the inside front wrapper. A very good copy. Twenty-nine poems, including the 26-line title poem. £7.50

EDWARD THOMAS (interest). Elizabeth Jennings. Consequently I Rejoice. Carcanet, Manchester 1977. First edition. A hint of spotting to top edge, else in fine state with dust wrapper, very lightly tanned at spine panel. Eighty-eight poems including Jennings’ elegy For Edward Thomas. £15

EDWARD THOMAS. John Lehmann. Three Literary Friendships. Quartet Books, London 1983. First edition. 8vo. 184pp. A touch of spotting to top edge, else a fine copy in dust wrapper, very lightly rubbed at head of spine panel. An account of the mutually creative friendship between Edward Thomas and Robert Frost (plus Shelly & Byron; and Verlaine & Rimbaud). £15

EDWARD THOMAS. R.George Thomas. Edward Thomas. A Portrait. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1985. First edition. 8vo. 331pp. With a facsimile page from Thomas’ notebook and twenty photographs.  Small bump to base of upper board and some occasional light pencilled marks and margin notes. A very bright copy in dust wrapper, lightly rubbed at spine ends and with a shade or two of fading to spine panel. £15

EDWARD THOMAS. Michael Kirkham. The Imagination of Edward Thomas. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1986. First edition. 8vo. 225pp. Edges very lightly spotted and just a trace of former dealer pencil marks to the tip of the front endpaper. A very good copy in slightly sunned dust wrapper. A scholarly study of the art of Edward Thomas. £35

EDWARD THOMAS. Stan Smith. Edward Thomas. Faber, ‘Student Guides’ series, London 1986. First edition – a paperback original. 221pp. Paperstock a little tanned and with some fairly discreet pencil marks to margins. Very good. £5

EDWARD THOMAS. Elected Friends. Poems for and about Edward Thomas. Complied by Anne Harvey and with a three-page introduction by Vernon Scannell. Enitharmon Press, London 1991. First trade edition. This copy signed by Anne Harvey on the title page. 136pp. Glossy card wrappers. A fine copy.  Seventy-six elegies and tributes contributed by Gordon Bottomley, W.H.Davies, Eleanor Farjeon, Robert Frost, Ivor Gurney, Wilfrid Gibson, Alun Lewis and others. £35

EDWARD THOMAS. Jean Moorcroft Wilson. Edward Thomas. From Adlestrop to Arras. A Biography. Bloomsbury, London 2015. First edition. 8vo. xv, 480pp. With map-illustrated endpapers, one further map, a drawn portrait of Thomas by his brother Ernest, and 56 black and white photographs. A near-invisible speckling of spotting to the top edge, else a fine copy dust wrapper, very slightly dust soiled and just a trace of creasing to one or two extremities. £25