Poems of Death

Hardback. 112pp. Verses chosen by Phoebe Pool and with 19 original colour lithographs by Michael Ayrton. This is the first edition of the first book illustrated by Ayrton when he was just 24. New Excursions into English Poetry series. Colour pictorial boards lettered in black with matching dust jacket. Editor Pheobe Pool went on to study art history with Anthony Blunt and was recruited by Blunt as a Soviet Spy. She died by suicide in 1971. Dust jacket is complete and not priced clipped though it is a little tanned in places and slightly rubbed to the edges with a one inch closed tear to the tail of the spine and some fraying to the head of the spine. Boards are a little dusty to shelf edge else very clean and bright. Slightly softened to spine ends. A clean, tight, square copy of this striking collection of poems illustrated by by a fine artist at the start of his career. Very good copy in like dust jacket Very good copy in like dust jacket.