WILFRED MEYNELL. [J. W. Haines]. — Rhymes with Reasons. Poems.

Burns & Oates Ltd., London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). Slim 8vo. 28pp + [iv] publisher's advertisements, sewn into card wrappers. The wrappers lightly marked, discoloured at the margins, and creased and a little nicked at the yapped edges. A good copy, really very crisp internally. This copy from the library of 'Friend to the Poets' John Wilton Haines, with his signature pencilled to the rear wrapper. (Haines was a Gloucestershire solicitor, naturalist and occasional poet, best remembered as the close friend of Edward Thomas and Robert Frost, and an associate of virtually all of the Georgian and Dymock poets). A collection of seventeen anonymously-published poems, most of them with a Great War theme, plus a one-page appendix (which details the soldier-poets name-checked in his verse of the same name: Julian Grenfell, E. A. Mackintosh, E. Wyndham Tennant, William Noel Hodgson, Rupert Brooke, and Gerald Caldwell Siordet). See Reilly p.224. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced]., Good