Brooke, Rupert. 1914 and Other Poems, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1915.

Original cream wrappers lettered in brown. First American Edition, consisting of only 87 copies printed for copyright purposes. Included is Brooke's best-known poem, "The Soldier," whic begins If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is for ever England. The English edition (1000 copies) was published by Rupert Brooke's Rugby classmate Frank Sidgwick in June 1915, less than two months after Brooke had died in the war (at age 27). He was buried not in some corner of a foreign ield, but on the Greek island of Skyros in the Aegean Sea: en route to Gallipoli with the British Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, he died of sepsis, purported from an infected mosquito bite. (Rupert's brother William wa killed at Loos just seven weeks later.) In issuing these 87 copyright copies, Doubleday Page was assuming that they would be publishing the actual American edition; however, the trustees of Brooke's estate designated John Lane to do so instead -- so these were the only copies issued by DP&Co. This fine copy (a mere hint of wear at the foot of the spine wrapper). Keynes 7.