POEMS

First US edition, first prnt. Full cloth with gilt lettering on spine and front board. Lacks dustjacket. Bookplate of Gardner Colby Walworth, Jr. on front pastedown. Beginning toning on spine and less so on board topedges, faint offsetting from bookplate on the front endpage. Tight copy in Very Good condition. Walworth was the son of Gardner Colby whose financial support of Colby College was rewarded with the institution's name change. Spender's second poetry publication and first trade publication preceded by Twenty Poems in 1930.