First edition. Slim 8vo. [4]pp. Sewn lavender card covers in publisher's mailing turquoise envelope. Full-page lithographic frontispiece and tailpiece by Robin Jacques.
Mailing envelope rather worn but unopened.
Issued in the New Series of Ariel poems reinstituted for a year by Faber in 1954 which also included poems by W.H. Auden, C. Day Lewis, T.S. Eliot, Edwin Muir, Roy Campbell, Louis MacNeice, and Stephen Spender. The First Series, intended as Christmas cards by Faber and Gwyer, ran from 1927 to 1931.