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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. A 1959 reprint of the 1945 issuance. An Everyman's Library English language edition presenting an anthology of English-language poems, from 1900 to 1960. Includes the work of 150 20th-century poems, broken into five sections. The last, "1946 onwards" consists of more modern poems, as chosen by Dame Edith Sitwell, who has supplied a preface. Co-compiler Richard Church has provided a foreword. With full indexes to authors, titles and first lines. Everyman's Library catalogue no. 981. --- In Everyman's Library larger format binding style 4. Full blue cloth-covered boards with gilt-stamped spine titling and interlocked 'EL' at tail of spine; orange topstain. In light blue dust jacket variant with a drawing of a singing bird to front panel. --- A tightly-bound, sound copy, but prior owner's signature to front free endpaper. Unpriced, unclipped jacket with color added to bird drawing (whoever did it, stayed nicely within the lines), chafing to head of spine and slight darkening to spine. The jacket is otherwise intact and wrapped in new removable archival mylar protector.; 12mo - 7 to 7-1/2 in. tall; xxxi, 351 pages.