Spender, Richard

PARACHUTE BATTALION.

Last poems from England and Tunisia. Pp. 30; cr. 8vo; printed paper wrappers with flap folds, lightly soiled, edges slightly creased, the backstrip rubbed and split; uncut; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on verso of upper wrapper, a little light foxing; Sidgwick & Jackson, London, 1943. First edition. *'Richard Spender was killed in battle in Tunisia on 28 March 1943, three months after the publication of his first book Laughing Blood and three months, almost to the day, before his twenty-second birthday' [p. 5]. A volume of Spender's collected poems was published in 1944. Item #165183

Price: $75.00