THREE THINGS.
London: Faber & Faber Limited, c. 1929. First edition. Small octavo. Blue pictorial and printed wrappers, string bound. Four leaves. Colored frontispiece and cover drawings by Gilbert Spencer. No. 18 of The Ariel Poems. Minor sunning to edges of wrapper, else fine.
The Ariel poems were a series of 38 pamphlets published between 1927 and 1931 by Faber and Gwyer (and later Faber and Faber) which contained illustrated poems. Each numbered pamphlet had an illustrated cover which contained the title, the author's and the illustrator's names. Four pages were sewn inside the cover, with a frontispiece illustration. Following that page was the poem. Several authors and illustrators had multiple pamphlets. A second series of eight Ariel poems was published in 1954. Item #778
WADE 166.
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