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Smith, N(aomi).G. Royde (editor) The Second Problems Book: Prizes and Proximes from the Westminster Gazette, 1908-1909 London: Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd., 1909. First edition. 12mo. 172 pp. Includes the poems: "In a Wood" (later reprinted as "The Voice"); "The Jolly Company"; two untitled poems later reprinted as "Choriambics--I" and "Choriambics--II". All were reprinted in Brooke's first book, "Poems", in 1911. Publisher's green cloth, stamped in blind and in gilt, all edges trimmed. Keynes 23 Poetry and Drama London, 1913. In three volumes. Volume I, Numbers 1,2 and 4. The complete run of issues, with contributions by Brooke, including his article "A Note on John Webster"; a book review: "John Donne"; and four poems. Stiff printed wrappers; top edges trimmed, other edges untrimmed; enclosed in a quarter chieftan solander box. Keynes, p. 114 New Numbers: A Quarterly Publication of the Poems of Wilfrid Wilson Gibson Rupert Brooke Lascelles Abercrombie John Drinkwater Ryton, Dymock, Gloucester, 1914. In four volumes. Volume I, Numbers 1-4. Printed stiff grey wrappers, occasionally chipped or creased, a few corners bumped; all edges trimmed; enclosed in a fall-down-back box. Includes 15 poems by Brooke, many appearing in print for the first time here, all later reprinted in "1914 and Other Poems". Keynes, p. 115-117.