Rupert Brooke, 1914 and Other Poems (156 results)

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The poetry of Rupert Brooke remains memorable for its charming lyrical quality and the way in which his sonnets perfectly recapture the mood of England at the start of World War I. This volume reprints his complete oeuvre, from the early lyric poems to those written shortly before his death: "The Old Vicarage, Grantchester," "Tiare Tahiti," "The Great Lover," "The Dead," "The Soldier," and many others. AUTHOR: A member of the generation of British poets who achieved fame during World War I, Rupert Brooke (18871915) burst on the literary scene when two of his war sonnets ("The Dead" and "The Soldier") were published in London's Times Literary Supplement on March 11, 1915. Less than two months later his 1914 and Other Poems was published and went through 24 impressions by June, 1918. After being inducted into the British Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, Brooke sailed on a Navy ship in February, 1915, heading toward the fighting at Gallipoli in Turkey. He died shortly thereafter, at age 27, on a French hospital ship moored off Skyros in the Aegean Sea from sepsis derived from an infected mosquito bite. Brooke was buried in an olive grove on Skyros. This volume reprints Brooke's complete oeuvre, from the early lyric poems to those written shortly before his death: "Tiare Tahiti," "The Great Lover," "The Dead," "The Soldier," many others. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No jacket. Penguin Books, 1999, reprint3. Paperback, 8vo, viii,56pp. Slightly rubbed. A good copy. /0.1uk . (Please note that our condition gradings are stricter than those of Abebooks and many other sellers. There may therefore be a discrepancy between this description and its listed condition grading).

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Condition: Fair. 1926. Thirty-third Impression. 63 pages. No dust jacket. Black cloth boards with lettering. Clean pages with noticeable tanning and foxing throughout. Minor cracking to gutters, with exposed netting. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Rough cut pages. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Lettering is darkened. Minor splits to spine ends and corners causing cloth to be frayed. Visible wear marks to boards.

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Sidgwick & Jackson, Limited, 1915. Ninth Impression, October 1915. Printed at the Complete Press, London. 63 pp. Blue hardcover, no DJ. Frontispiece portrait of Rupert Brooke. Textblock appears clean. VERY GOOD for the age.

Condition: Fair. 1916. Thirteenth Impression. 63 pages. No dust jacket. Black cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with common faults. Some issues present such as cracking, inscriptions, inserts, moderate foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Binding remains firm, text is legible. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.

Condition: Good. 1915. Ninth impression. 63 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate shelf wear with some rubbing, fraying and corner bumping. Some moderate marking and tanning, particularly to spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. 192 pages; Frontispiece photogravure portrait of Brooke with facsimile autograph and tissue guard. Original owner's signature on ffep "Susan Mary Jay / Easter Day - 1938", otherwise contents clean and secure in original blue cloth binding with gilt lettering at front board and spine (faded at spine). From the collection of Susan Mary Jay Patten Alsop, a popular historian and a pillar of Washington society, was the daughter of a diplomat, a descendant of founding father John Jay and served with her first husband Bill Patten at the American Embassy in Paris in the 1950s. When her husband died in 1960, she married Joseph Alsop, the journalist, the following year. In the 1970s she embarked on her own literary career producing "To Marietta From Paris: 1945-1960" (1974), followed by "Lady Sackville: A Biography" (1978), "Yankees at the Court: The First Americans in Paris" (1982), and "The Congress Dances: Vienna 1814-1815" (1984). Her Georgetown homes (both with and without Alsop) hosted dignitaries, publishers and a variety of interesting people during the 1960s and 1970s including such luminaries as John F. Kennedy, Phil Graham, Katharine Graham, and Isaiah Berlin, earning her the nickname "the grand dame of Washington society," (to which she rather objected). Rupert Chawner Brooke (1887-1915) was an English poet known for his idealistic war sonnets written during the First World War, especially "The Soldier." He was also known for his boyish good looks, which were said to have prompted the Irish poet W. B. Yeats to describe him as the handsomest young man in England. In October 1906 he went up to King's College, Cambridge to study Classics. There he became a member of the Apostles, was elected as president of the university Fabian Society, helped found the Marlowe Society drama club and acted, including in the Cambridge Greek Play. Brooke enlisted at the outbreak of war in August 1914. He came to public attention as a war poet early the following year. Brooke's most famous collection of poetry, containing all five sonnets, 1914 & Other Poems, was first published in May 1915. It was widely popular. Brooke sailed with the British Mediterranean Expeditionary Force on 28 February 1915 but developed pneumococcal sepsis from an infected mosquito bite; he died on 23 April 1915, on the French hospital ship.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1ST IN THIS ED. 1941. 64 PAGES. PAPER ON BOARD BINDING. NO DJ, SPINE ROLLED, FOXING AND OTHER MARKS ON COVERS AND SPINE, PAPER TEARS AT SIDES OF SPINE, WEAR TO EXTREMITIES, EX-LIBRIS LABEL ON FFEP, FOXING ON EPS AND PAGE SIDES, PAGES LIGHTLY TANNED, OTHERWISE GOOD. 250.

Bibliothekseinband. Condition: Gut. 63 Seiten; Das hier angebotene Buch stammt aus einer teilaufgelösten wissenschaftlichen Bibliothek und trägt die entsprechenden Kennzeichnungen (Rückenschild, Instituts-Stempel.); leichte altersbedingte Anbräunung des Papiers; der Buchzustand ist ansonsten ordentlich und dem Alter entsprechend gut. In ENGLISCHER Sprache. Buchschnitt leicht ausgefranzt; Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 180.

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Photograph available on request.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. THE COLLECTED POEMS OF RUPERT BROOKE, with an introduction by George Edward Woodberry and a biographical note by Margaret Lavington, hardcover, 1934. BOOK CONDITION: very good. The text block is in fine condition with no tears, dog-ears, or marks. Pages are age-toned. There is no bookplate nor signature of a prior owner. Not a remainder or library book. The dark blue boards are in good condition (lightly bumped corners and bumped spine, which is also faded). 7 ½ x 5 ½, 192 pages, 11 ounces XX [Wikipedia] Rupert Chawner Brooke (3 August 1887 ? 23 April 1915) was an English poet known for his idealistic war sonnets written during the First World War, especially ?The Soldier? He was also known for his boyish good looks, which were said to have prompted the Irish poet W. B. Yeats to describe him as the handsomest young man in England. Brooke attended preparatory school locally at Hillbrow, and then went on to Rugby School. At Rugby he was romantically involved with fellow pupils Charles Lascelles, Denham Russell-Smith and Michael Sadleir. In 1905, he became friends with St. John Lucas, who thereafter became something of a mentor to him. In October 1906 he went up to King's College, Cambridge to study Classics. There he became a member of the Apostles, was elected as president of the university Fabian Society, helped found the Marlowe Society drama club and acted, including in the Cambridge Greek Play. The friendships he made at school and university set the course for his adult life, and many of the people he met?including George Mallory?fell under his spell. Brooke made friends among the Bloomsbury group of writers, some of whom admired his talent while others were more impressed by his good looks. Brooke suffered a severe emotional crisis in 1912, caused by sexual confusion (he was bisexual) and jealousy, resulting in the breakdown of his long relationship with Ka Cox (Katherine Laird Cox). As part of his recuperation, Brooke toured the United States and Canada to write travel diaries for the Westminster Gazette. He took the long way home, sailing across the Pacific and staying some months in the South Seas. Much later it was revealed that he may have fathered a daughter with a Tahitian woman named Taatamata with whom he seems to have enjoyed his most complete emotional relationship. Brooke enlisted at the outbreak of war in August 1914. He came to public attention as a war poet early the following year. Brooke's most famous collection of poetry, containing all five sonnets, 1914 & Other Poems, was first published in May 1915 and, in testament to his popularity, ran to 11 further impressions that year and by June 1918 had reached its 24th impression. Brooke sailed with the British Mediterranean Expeditionary Force on 28 February 1915 but developed pneumococcal sepsis from an infected mosquito bite. He died of septicaemia at 4:46 pm on 23 April 1915, on the French hospital ship Duguay-Trouin, moored in a bay off the Greek island of Skyros in the Aegean Sea, while on his way to the landings at Gallipoli.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Hbk, 64p. First in this edition. Covers rather dulled but still in pretty good condition. Previous owner's inscription on ffep o/w a clean copy in very good condition. Comes with a Christmas card loosely inserted! f1051 / m9134.

26th impression. Previous owner's signature. Poor copy in the original stiff-card cloth wrappers. Wear and tear to the spine bands and panel edges. Hinges starting. Text remains clear without blemish. Physical description: 63, [1] p., 1 plate: port.; 20 cm. Subjects: English poetry 20th century; Texts. World War, 1914-1918; Poetry.Other names: Marsh, Edward Howard Sir 1872-1953. Genre: Illustrated.Poetry. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 63pp. fine clean condition with usual slight paper discolour to fep's small owners name to top ffep. Black buckram with paper label to top of spine. Post and packing on this item will be lower than quoted by abe. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 0.0 0.0.

hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Previous owner's ink inscription. 1929 edition Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail with tracking worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Picture is the actual item.

hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail with tracking worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Picture is the actual item.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. As photographed; with dustkacket; clean and bright throughout; owner's name & date (1920); otherwise unmarked; private ownership. (NB: ordering multiple books from us: your total order is dispatched for the cost of one book - £3.25 in the UK).

16th Impression. Previous owner's signature. Good copy in the original cloth with paper label. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat bumped and rubbed as with age. Some wear to spine. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 63, [1]p., 1 plate : port. ; 20cm. Subjects: World War (1914-1918) -- Poetry. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Cream boards with green titles, lacking dj. boards sunned and soiled by use, small dent to front board, staining to rear board, pages lightly tanned but internally a clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No dustwrapper, grey cloth. Some wear and spine missing, although the block is sound. Book.

1st edition, 28th impression. Very good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Bumped corners. Remains well-preserved overall, Physical description: 63, [1] pages) frontispiece (portrait); 19 cm. Contents: 1914. -- The south seas. -- Other poems. -- Grantchester. Subjects: World War, 1914-1918; English poetry 20th century; War poetry, English; Guerre mondiale, 1914-1918 ; Poésie. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. THE COVER IS RUBBED WITH BUMPING TO CORNERS AND BOTH ENDS OF SPINE. TITLE WRITTEN TO SPINE. NAME TO FFEP DATED 1918. TANNED THROUGHOUT. MILD FOXING. UNTRIMED EDGES. BINDING FIRM. PAGES GENERALLY APPEAR CLEAN AND CREASE FREE. ALL IN ALL A NICE EXAMPLE OF THIS BOOK.

hardback, 8vo, 64pp, fore-edges slightly bumped, otherwise clean and sound, no inscriptions, printed boards, rubbed, Good condition / no dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 37th imp. Full leather, illustration in gilt on the front, top gilt, frontispiece portrait. Boards bowed top to bottom, wear to leather on spine, wear at extremities, some writing top of ffep, tiny bookstore lable on rear pd, sides tanned, otherwise good. 500 grams.

26th impression. Previous owner's signature. Poor copy in the original stiff-card cloth wrappers. Wear and tear to the spine bands and panel edges. Hinges starting. Text remains clear without blemish. Physical description: 63, [1] p., 1 plate: port.; 20 cm. Subjects: English poetry 20th century; Texts. World War, 1914-1918; Poetry.Other names: Marsh, Edward Howard Sir 1872-1953. Genre: Illustrated.Poetry. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Here are three books by / about the poet Rupert Brooke. All are hardback. 1. 1914 and other poems (Sidgwick & Jackson, 1915). Tenth impression, frontispiece. A good reading copy with some light foxing and rubbing. 2. The Poetical Works of Rupert Brooke, edited by Geoffrey Keynes (Faber, 1955). Reprint, dustwrapper. A nice reading copy. 3. Keith Hale, Friends and Apostles; The Correspondence of Rupert Brooke and James Strachey, 1905-1914. (Yale, New Haven & London, 1998). Dustwrapper, first printing, very good condition. Condition: All books are in good condition for age, the older books with rubbing, bumping and foxing.