FIRST EDITION WITH MANUSCRIPT POEM
Youth
[Privately printed for the author] I. Narodiczky, 1915.
First edition. Original printed tan wrappers printed in black. Inscribed by the author with an additional manuscript poem added on the final page of text. Also authorial manuscript revisions to the first stanza of the poem The One Lost on p.14 on two slips of paper pasted over the text. A very good copy, the wrappers somewhat worn with a little loss and repaired to the upper edge and spine.
The second of just three works of poetry Rosenberg issued during his lifetime, published in an edition of about 100 copies. He quickly became one of the most celebrated of the British war poets, before his death on the Western Front in 1918.
At the end of the text, Rosenberg has added a 15-line manuscript poem in ink, later published as "Who Loses the Hour of the Wind?" but here entitled 'Epilogue'. It was composed in 1915 but not included in this collection who loses and contains a few variations from the published version.
As a product of his swift rise and untimely demise, any form of Rosenberg manuscript material is of the greatest scarcity. According to the note in the catalogue of the Simon Nowell-Smith collection, this copy was originally given to the artist David Bomberg in April 1915 and acquired by Jack Isaacs in 1922.
PROVENANCE: David Bomberg (1890-1957, artist, fellow student at the Slade School of Art, note in the Nowell Smith Collection catalogue); Jack Isaacs (poet and friend of Robert Graves, note in the Nowell Smith Collection catalogue); Simon Nowell-Smith (bookplate to chemise).
Stock ID: 45468
£17,500.00
