B22 The Best Poems of 1926

Table of Contents

B22-a First edition

Title Page

Launch

Description

Contribution by GM

B22-a First edition

Title Page

The

BEST POEMS

of 1926

publisher's device

Selected by

THOMAS MOULT

& decorated by

JOHN AUSTEN

LONDON

Jonathan Cape, Thirty Bedford Square

1927

Launch

[Not provided by Gilcher]

Description

Height: 7 3/8 in; 7.38 in; 18.73 cm

Width: 5 in; 12.7 cm

[A]8, B-H8, [I]4; pp xiv, 120, [2];

• white endpapers with artist’s decorations where facing;
• top edges trimmed, fore and bottom edges untrimmed;
• bound in red and black decorated paper-covered boards,
• white paper label on spine lettered in black:

The

BEST

POEMS

of

1926

Contribution by GM

“Argenteuil, 1128” p 99, reprinted from the Observer, August 1926.

B22-a2 American edition

Sheets of the first edition (B22-a), including endpapers, were used for an American edition, with cancel title-leaf exactly as in English edition except publisher’s imprint on recto changed to

NEW YORK

Harcourt, Brace & Company

383 Madison Avenue

• top edges trimmed and stained blue,
• bound in black and gold decorated paper-covered board sides,
• With cream cloth spine, white label on spine stamped in blue:

The

BEST

POEMS

of 1926

Selected by

T. MOULT

rule

Harcourt,

Brace & Co.

double rule, light and heavy at top and bottom