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    By A. E. Housman
    Gloucestershire   Alcuin Press
    10" by 6.5" 67, [1pp]
    One of the final poetry collections of H. E. Housman, a touching collection compiled for his unrequited love, a lovely limited edition by the Alcuin Press.
    By A. E. Housman

    1929 Last Poems

    Gloucestershire   Alcuin Press
    10" by 6.5" 67, [1pp]
    One of the final poetry collections of H. E. Housman, a touching collection compiled for his unrequited love, a lovely limited edition by the Alcuin Press.
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    Limited Edition, Publishers' Original Binding

    A limited edition work, limited to three-hundred and twenty-five copies, not stated in this volume; the limitation was stated in 'A Shropshire Lad' which Alcuin published concurrently. 

    One of the two final poetry collections by A. E. Housman, compiled in the approaching death of his closet lifelong friend and unrequited love Moses Jackson. Housman collected these forty two poems for Jackson to read before he died.

    Published by the Alcuin Press, founded in 1928 by Herbert Patrick Reginald Finberg, who had previously worked at the Shakespeare Head Press.

    Condition

    In the original publisher's quarter cloth binding with paper to the boards. Externally, smart. A few light spots to the boards. Head of the rear board is lightly faded. Spine is lightly discoloured, including the spine label. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Pages are unopened to the top and fore edge.

    Near Fine

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