Poems of Eva Gore-Booth. Complete Edition With The Inner Life of a Child and Letters and a Biographical Introduction by Esther Roper. With Portraits. London: Longmans, 1929. First Edition. Pp, xx, 654. Blue buckram, title with device lettered in gilt to upper cover & spine. Light shelf-wear to covers, off-setting to title page otherwise contents in very good condition.

A complete collection of her poems, arranged chronology. Illustrated with three portrait plates of the Author.

Early gift inscription to front free endpaper, along with holograph poem (possibly in the author’s hand) entitled “Poetry”  signed ‘EGB.’ The poem appears on page 616.

Eva Gore-Booth, born at Lissadell Co. Sligo, was a sister of the turbulent Countess Mariewicz. A prolific writer & friend of W.B. Yeats she was heavily influenced by Celtic Twilight. She was included in George Russell’s 1903 anthology ‘New Poems: A Lyric Selection with AE.’

For the duration of the first World War she was actively involved in the Women’s Peace Crusade and the No-Conscription Fellowship, and she supported conscientious objectors. Her pacificism and the power of love were her perennial themes.