The Year’s At The Spring. An Anthology of Recent Poetry. Compiled By L. D’O. Walters and Illustrated by Harry Clarke. With an Introduction by Harold Monro. London: Harrap, 1920. First Edition. Pp 125. Small Folio. Publisher’s full antiqued brown grained leather with deeply embossed title on the front cover as well as a faux binding clasp design. Light wear to f spine, contents in fine bright condition. One of four variant bindings of this first edition (Steenson A3.d).

The first American edition of one of the most celebrated illustrated anthologies of the twentieth century, featuring the distinctive and ethereal artwork of Harry Clarke. The poems selected by Lettice D’Oyly Walters represent the cream of early twentieth-century English and Irish lyric poetry.

The anthology includes works by Rupert Brooke, W.H. Davies, Walter de la Mare, Thomas Hardy, Ralph Hodgson, John Masefield, James Stephens, and W.B. Yeats . Yeats is represented by two of his most beloved lyrics, “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” and “The Fiddler of Dooney,” while James Stephens contributes “Check” and “When the Leaves Fall”