Collections of an Only Child: Seventy Years a Bibliophile, the Library of Justin G. Schiller

(Manchester: Printed by S. Clarke Limited), 1917. First edition. Presentation copy inscribed by Carpenter on title-page, "A.T. Bartholomew / from E.C. / Xmas 1917." 12mo. (15) pp. Publisher's limp printed string-sewn wrappers; ownership signature on verso of front wrapper.

Scarce first edition of Edward Carpenter's privately printed collection of three World War I ballads.

Augustus "Theo" Bartholomew (1882-1933) was a librarian at Cambridge University, and was close friends with Carpenter and other contemporary poets such as Siegfried Sassoon, Ralph Chubb, and Charles Sayle.

Rare. According to RBH, we can only locate only one other copy of this work in the auction record since 1938.