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de la Mare, Walter. THE VEIL AND OTHER POEMS New York: Henry Holt, 1922. Hardcover First Edition



First US printing. A collection of poems, many with rather gloomy themes: Wrecked, In the Dock, Drugged, The Suicide and so on. In a lovely very dark green cloth binding with gilt lettering and an art nouveau design of a lamp with swirling smoke extending across the spine and onto the back cover. 84 pp. Very near fine (gift inscription dated Jan 19, 1922, usual toning to the pages.) .

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