[Signed] Rue HOUSMAN, Laurence [Very Good] [Hardcover]

First edition. Octavo. x, 96, [4, ads] pp. Navy cloth titled in gilt. Neat owner signature on front fly, bit of offsetting on the front fly and pencil ticks on the table of contents and a few pages of the text, modest wear, near fine. Inscribed by Housman on the front blank: ""Anita Bartle Brackenburg her book. Laurence Housman his signature."" In addition, Housman has made ink corrections to 18 lines of text over 12 pages, in one place replacing three lines of a four-line stanza. A book of poems inscribed and extensively annotated by the noted author, illustrator, and suffragist.