Harold Monro — Strange Meetings

London, The Poetry Bookshop, 1917. First edition. Paperback. The first edition of this wartime poetry collection by Harold Monro, the proprietor of the Poetry Bookshop in London. The first trade edition, published in the same year as the limited large paper edition.  In the publisher's illustrated wraps. Harold Monro, the owner of the Poetry Bookshop in Devonshire street London, published this collection of fifteen poems in April 1917 during the Great War. In his review for 'The Egoist', T.S. Eliot remarked that this collection of poems 'as a whole makes a more complete impression than any but a very few of recent years&apos. The Poetry Bookshop operated from 1913-1926 and served to help many living poets bring their work before the public. The Bookshop was supported by Harold Monro and several poets actually made their home there, including Wilfred Owen, Wilfrid Wilson Gibson and Robert Frost. In the publisher's illustrated wraps, with yapp edges. Externally, smart, with edge wear to the wraps and sunning to the spine. A couple small spots to the rear wrap. Small closed tears to the head and tail of the front joint. Internally, firmly bound. Pages with scattered spotting throughout, heaviest to the first and last few leaves. Good . Ill.: None. Good .