COLLECTED POEMS

London: Macmillan and Co., 1914. Gilt lettered blue cloth, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Some offset to endsheets, cloth a trifle rubbed, but a good copy. Somewhat offensive bookseller's ticket on front pastedown. First edition. With the bookplate of R.N. Green-Armytage on the front pastedown. Publisher's presentation copy, with the blindstamp in the title and leaf following. Affixed to the front free endsheet is a three page a.l.s., n.p., n.d., on folded octavo lettersheet, from Gale to "My Dear Nutt" (likely bookseller Alfred Nutt), asking that he be removed from a list for a certain book, sending delayed payment, and explaining that "In these hard times, I can only afford books at rare intervals, and thus have to be sure I get the right volumes...." The first page has tan offset from the facing endsheet. Laid in is an uncommon 4pp., leaflet, being an uncommon separate printing of Gale's poem, "Feathery Harps." The poem does not appeared in this edition of Gale's CP. NCBEL III:627. COLBECK I:273. (Inventory #: WRCLIT68965)