W. R. Rodgers — Awake! and Other Poems

London, Secker and Warburg, 1941. First edition. Cloth. A lovely copy of this volume with selected poems by W. R. Rodgers, the first edition as the first 1940 printing was entirely destroyed by enemy attack during the war. The first edition of this work. First printing thus as the real first printing in 1940 was destroyed entirely by an enemy attack during the Second World War. The first collection of poems by Irish author W. R. Rodgers, highly praised in previous magazine appearances such as in Horizon, The Listener, and the New Statesman and Nation.With unclipped dustwrapper. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally excellent with minor shelfwear. Faint minor marking to front board. Inscribed by a previous owner to front free endpaper. Dustwrapper is unclipped and very smart, with only minor shelfwear and sunning to spine. Internally, firmly bound. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Very Good Indeed.