AINSLIE, Douglas.

Mirage: Poems.

First edition, 8vo. Original green cloth with gilt lettering and bordering on front cover and spine, top edge gilt. London: Elkin Mathews, 1911.

£90.00
AINSLIE, Douglas.
Mirage: Poems.

Presentation copy, inscribed on recto of ffep: “To Henry Simpson from Douglas Ainslie [line across page] May 1917”. Simpson was president of the Poets’ Club, but Ainslie seems to be almost alone among British versifiers in not having contributed to its anthologies. A special edition was published in Edinburgh in the same year by Turnbull & Spears.Nelson, 1911.7.

Very light foxing to fore edge. Very good copy.

Stock No.
240719