Robert Conquest — Poems & Arias from a Love Opera

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1955-1969. First edition. Cloth. Two smart first edition volumes of poetry from British-American writer Robert Conquest. Two volumes. First editions. A collection of poetry from George Robert Acworth Conquest, a British and American historian, poet, and novelist who was briefly a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain but later wrote several books against communism. This set contains: Poems, 1955. The author's first volume of poetry with titles such as: Lake Success, The Death of Hart Crane, Significant Form, Mating Season, and Humanities. Arias from a Love Opera and Other Poems, 1969. A collection of lyrical poems, including: Measure of All Things, Dictator, Loss of Nerve, Memoirs, and Houghton House. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, excellent. Original unclipped dust wrappers are very smart with light wear to the extremities and sunning to the spines. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with minor age toning to the extremities. Light spotting to the foredge of Arias from a Love Opera. Bookseller's label to the rear pastedown of Poems. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Very Good Indeed.