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Book cover of 'Poems of Death' edited by Phoebe Pool with a draped cloth design.
Artistic depiction of a skeletal, draped figure against a dark background with a moon.
Book cover of 'Poems of Death' edited by Phoebe Pool with a draped cloth design.
Artistic depiction of a skeletal, draped figure against a dark background with a moon.

Poems of Death

by POOL, Phoebe (ed)
£75.00 - £75.00
£75.00
£75.00 - £75.00
£75.00

London. Frederick Muller: 1945.

8vo, 112pp, illustrated throughout with 4 colour lithographs by Michael Ayrton. Near-fine text block in very good condition. Illustrated cloth with some light shelf-wear and discolouration to extremeties. 

A selection of memento-mori verse selected by Phoebe Pool and issued as part of the 'New Excursions into English Poetry' series. With the pen inscription of F. Gollancz to the front free endpaper and a small ex-libris for George Sims to front pastedown.

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