The Veil and Other Poems

First edition. Sm. 8vo. Pp. viii, 92. Linen-backed patterned boards, paper title label to spine; fore and bottom edges untrimmed.

Faint offsetting to endpapers. Previous owner's neat signature and date of acquisition on front pastedown. Paper title label to spine intact if lightly faded. Slightest suggestion of rubbing to the corners. A very sound, internally clean and tight copy.

A collection of de la Mare's poems, seven of which were composed as illustrative verses for drawings by Miss Pamela Bianco – a self-taught, American modernist artist, much enamoured by artists and patrons of the era – and first published by William Heinemann in Flora (1919). Additional poems collected here were originally published in the pages of the London Mercury, the New Republic, the Spectator, the Nation, the Century Magazine, the Cambridge Magazine, the Literary Review, the Sphere, the New Statesman, the Bookman's Journal, the Broom, the Outlook, the Athenaeum, and the Westminster Gazette.