Caudwell, Christopher — Poems

London, The Bodley Head, 1949. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Stated Second Impression of the First Edition from the year prior. Previous owner's inscription at first free endpaper, else lightly toned but clean and unmarked of interior. Paper dust wrappers present but rubbed, chipped along top edge and with a split to upper front joint. The author's Wikipedia entry notes that "Christopher St John Sprigg (20 October 1907 – 12 February 1937), best known by his pseudonym Christopher Caudwell, was an English Marxist writer, literary critic, intellectual and activist." He perished during the Spanish Civil War after a long and celebrated career, including as the editor of British Malaya, and killed, according to the socialist magazine Monthly Review, on 12 February 1937 "by fascists in the valley of Jarama during the Spanish Civil War. He died at a machine gun post, guarding the retreat of his comrades in the British Battalion of the International Brigade" (Wikipedia). 96 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good/Fair,