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POETRY, Miscellaneous -- WHISTLER, Laurence (1912-2000). The Emperor Heart. London: Heinemann, 1936. 8°. Illustrations by Rex Whistler printed in black and orange. Original purple cloth, gilt, faded at spine, with salmon pink dustjacket (worn). PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed For Lady Ottoline Morrell from Laurence Whistler Nov. 1936. Pencil marks against a few titles on contents page. [ANTHOLOGY]. Recent Poetry 1923-1933, edited and with an introduction by Alida Monro. London: Gerald Howe & the Poetry Bookshop, 1933. 8°. Original grey paper boards. INSCRIBED 'O.M. from A.M. [Alida Monro] December 1933.' Twentieth Century Poetry: An Anthology chosen by Harold Monro. London: Chatto & Windus, 1929. 8°. Original green cloth. INSCRIBED 'O.M. FROM A.M. 1929.' BETJEMAN, Sir John (1906-1984). Antiquarian Prejudice. London: Hogarth Press, 1939. 8°. Original orange wrappers. Hogarth Sixpenny Pamphlets no. 3. COLUM, Padraic (1881-1972). Wild Earth and Other Poems. New York: Macmillan, 1927. 8°. Original green cloth (darkened at spine). Booklabel of the Poetry Bookshop. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed with four lines of verse and signed by the author. EARP, T. W. The Gate of Bronze. Oxford: The Holywell Press, 1917. 8°. Original wrappers (creased and marked). Ten poems. ONE OF 20 COPIES. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed To Lady Ottoline Morrell from T. W. Earp September. 1917. This 16-page pamphlet precedes by two years the 32-page book of the same title published by Blackwells. Earp was editor of Oxford Poetry 1915-1919, and later an art critic and translator of Stendhal. [ROTA, Bertram (1903-1966, publisher]). Voces Librorum. London: Bertram Rota, 1925. 16°. 8pp. Christmas booklet. Original grey wrappers (faded at spine). ONE OF 50 COPIES. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed to Lady Ottoline Morrell, with the compliments and respects of Bertram Rota. ROTA, Bertram. The Viking by Rupert Croft-Cooke. London: Bertram Rota, 1926. 16°. 8pp. Christmas booklet. Original orange wrappers. ONE OF 150 COPIES. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed For Lady Ottoline Morrell, with the compliments and respects of Bertram Rota. With printed Christmas compliments slip introducing the poem. MASEFIELD, John (1878-1967). King Cole and Other Poems. London: Heinemann, 1923. 8°. Original boards. INSCRIBED TO LADY OTTOLINE MORRELL 'Love Judith M. May 28th 1923' with three ink sketches. Jusith Masefield, the poet's daughter and herself a book illustrator, is the subject of a photograph taken by Ottoline Morrell in 1920, now at the National Portrait Gallery. (9)