Description
Haines, John. Poems. London: Selwyn & Blount, 1921. First Edition. Blue Paper Covered Boards. Poor. 45pp. + colophon. All edges uncut. Inscribed by Haines in the year of publication for James Guthrie, the artist-printer who ran The Pear Tree Press. The complete backstrip in three pieces (including the almost whole spine label) enclosed within the book. Boards unevenly darkened with a small splash.








The Claims Office
In Reality
The Museum of Disappearing Sounds
The Lover's Pinch
And You, Helen
Gold from the Stone
States of Happiness
This Is Yarrow
Signs Like This
Poems to Elsi
The Sun and Her Flowers
Soemps
New and Selected Poems, Volume Two
The Moon Before Morning
Dog Poems
Ten Poems on the Telephone
The Silvering
Comic Poems
Hansel and Gretel
Steep Tea
Herod's Dispensations
Bridge 116
Chickweek Wintergreen
Ten Poems about Nottingham
Pretend You Don't Know Me
Thirteen Poems of Revenge (Introduced by Sophie Hannah)
Counting Backwards
Macavity
Being Alive
Isn't Forever
The 'White City'
Words the Turtle Taught Me