Buy this book on-line BINYON**, LAURENCE: : THE BURNING OF THE LEAVES AND OTHER POEMSLONDON.MACMILLAN & CO.1944. ISBN No ISBN.
UK,slim 8vo wraps,1st edn.[1st edn,1st state with sewn signatures.] NFINE.No owner inscrptn. Clean,crisp,original,yapped tan/beige stiff card wraps and black+red lettering to upper wrap; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - just two tiny,tiny snicks; one to each wrap's vertical edge.Top edge very lightly aged/toned - as usual/normal,fore-edges brighter; contents bright,tight and near pristine,no foxing/spotting internally,no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - possibly an unread copy? UK,sim 8vo wraps,1st edn,1st state,v-viipp+1-15pp [paginated] includes foreword by Cicely Binyon,contents list/table,9 poems including the variations in
the text published in 'Horizon' and there entitled 'The Ruins' for the title poem 'The Burning of the Leaves',plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,recto of last page,and rear free endpaper.
Poems include the titled poem,and the group appeared in two different versions; one in the UK,in 'Horizon,1942; the other in the US in 'The Atlantic Monthly in November 1942.
The author made no choice between them and it is the American version printed here with the differences noted under the lines affected.
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