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London: Imperial War Museum, 1990. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Hardback, bound in laminate boards. 30.5 × 21.5cm, 111pp. A facsimile copy of Isaac Rosenberg's third and final collection of poems and play. The introductions concern the Isaac Rosenberg Collection at the IWM, Moses and War, and An Idea of Moses. This is followed by facsimile copies of early drafts, typescripts of the original version, supplementary drafts, printer's typescript, printer's proof, and the published text. Condition: There is light wear to the boards, and some light foxing to the page edges but otherwise this copy is in very good condition.

London: The Paragon Printing Works, 1916. First Edition . Paperback. Very Good. 26pp. 16vo. An ex-library (UEA) copy in remarkably good condition. The only indicatios that this copy is ex-library are an exlibris label on inside front wrappers, an 8-digit accession number beneath and a small round library stamp on the title page and on page five. Four or five tiny 'corrections' to the text have been neatly made on early pages by the publishers. The wrappers are uncreased and unworn. The binding is stitched with the bright yellow wrappers glued on from back endpaper. A rare book in remarkaby good condition.

Printed by The Paragon, Stepney Green, London., 1916. First edition. 12mo. 26 pages. Original wrappers.Stain to top edge affecting upper margins of a few pages and top of rear cover. Spine splitting. Covers a bit dusty. A good, presentable copy of a scarce item.

The sole UK printing published by Paragon Publishing Works, London in 1916. The BOOK is in near Fine condition. Very slight edge wear. Covers slightly darkened to edges but the book remains in remarkable condition despite its age and cheap production. The poet/painter's third separate publication, which like its predecessors were printed at his own expense and privately distributed. The tittle is slightly deceptive, as a small group of poems, including war poems, are appended. A few tiny 'corrections' to the text have been neatly made by the publishers as usually encountered. The binding is stitched with the bright yellow wrappers glued on from the back end-paper. A very rare book in remarkably good condition. Housed in a custom solander box with gilt titling and marbled paper lining. Scarce. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact.

London: The Paragon Printing Works,, 1916. His third and final collection of war poems First edition, first impression, privately printed and scarce, especially so in collectable condition. This copy was given as a gift by Rosenberg's patron, Sydney Schiff, to the actress Lydia Sherwood, inscribed by him on the front wrapper verso, "To Lydia Sherwood, from Sydney S., Jan 24, '26". This copy has ten manuscript corrections to the text, as usual, possibly by Rosenberg's sister Mina. Rosenberg first met Schiff (1868-1944), a translator of Proust's Recherche and a modernist financier, in the spring of 1915, and soon joined Eliot, Joyce, and Wyndham Lewis as one of his beneficiaries. "Schiff became Rosenberg's 'absentee' patron, in the sense that he put no pressure on him to produce works in return for occasional support, and he was available whenever Rosenberg needed him" (Cohen, p. 116). The two men, both Jewish, corresponded throughout Rosenberg's time in the trenches, where the poet faced antisemitism… Read More