GIBSON, Wildrid Wilson

Thoroughfares

London: Elkin Mathews, 1914. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original tan cloth, untrimmed. Front cover slightly bowed. Item #409386

First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed to fellow poet Gordon Bottomley in year of publication. "This collection was published shortly before the outbreak of war, contemporary with Gibson's co-founding and co-editing of 'New Numbers' was Lascelles Abercrombie, Rupert Brooke and John Drinkwater" (Grolier Club, 'Soldier poets of the Great War' exhibition, 1988). Reilley, p. 139. (BA).

Price: $250.00