Nov 18, 2014 - Sale 2366

Sale 2366 - Lot 125

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Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
HOPKINS, GERARD MANLEY. Poems. Edited with notes by Robert Bridges. With 2 portraits and 2 double-page facsimiles. 8vo, 1/4 linen-backed grey-blue boards, soiled, spine darkened, spine label browned and chipped. London: Humphrey Milford, 1918
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first edition of hopkins' first book. One of 750 copies printed. "Hopkins's poetry with its religious faith, his experiments in versification, his 'dark night of the soul' would have reduced all his Victorian contemporaries to immediate insignificance - like Rimbaud's in France - had they but known of him" (Connolly 33). Hayward 335.