First edition, first printing of Collected Poems by William Empson, published by Chatto & Windus in 1955. Original cloth boards in the original dust jacket. The book is clean and firmly bound with light age-related foxing. Dust jacket is complete with some damage as shown in the photographs, moderate foxing and light shelf wear. 

A collectible first edition by one of the twentieth century's leading literary critics and poets.

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