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Title: Collected Poems 1921–1958
Author: Edwin Muir
Publisher: Faber & Faber, London
Publication details: First edition published 1960; Collected Poems 1921–1958 first published in MCMLX by Faber & Faber Limited, 24 Russell Square, London W.C.1; printed in Great Britain by Western Printing Services Limited; copyright for this collection credited to Willa Muir, 1960.
Format: Hardcover book with printed dust jacket.
Genre/Topic: Poetry; twentieth-century Scottish and British literature; collected works.
Language: English
Country of origin: United Kingdom (printed in Great Britain).
Physical description: Blue cloth hardcover binding with spine titling; cream paper dust jacket with large black lettering for the author and title on the front panel, a red decorative floral motif, spine titling in red and black, and the Faber & Faber imprint at the foot; rear jacket panel lists other Faber poetry titles by W. H. Auden, T. S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, Ezra Pound, and additional poets; interior printed in black on off-white paper.
Illustrations: Includes a black-and-white frontispiece portrait of Edwin Muir facing the title page.
Contents overview: Comprehensive collection of Muir's verse from across his career, bringing together poems originally published between 1921 and 1958; individual pieces include works such as 'A Birthday', 'The Human Fold', 'Mary Stuart', 'Ibsen', and other lyrical and narrative poems arranged in sequence with page numbers.
Additional features: Dust jacket flaps provide a brief biographical and critical note on Edwin Muir along with a description of the collection, and show the original British price of 25s net printed at the lower corner of the front inner flap.
Special attributes: First edition Faber & Faber hardcover collection of Edwin Muir's poetry spanning the years 1921–1958, of interest to readers and collectors of modern British and Scottish poetry; pre-ISBN era with no ISBN, UPC, or modern barcode present.
Condition details: see condition field for more information.
Condition: Original dust jacket shows uniform age-toning, light surface soiling, and moderate edge and corner wear, with small chips and short tears at the spine ends and fore-corners. Blue cloth boards show light rubbing at the extremities but retain clear spine titling. Endpapers and text block are lightly age-toned; the title and copyright pages have several small brown foxing spots along the upper margin. Interior pages are otherwise clean and unmarked, and the binding is tight and square with no loose or detached leaves. Small bookseller's ticket from George's, Park Row, Bristol is present at the lower edge of the front pastedown.