![BARING, Maurice. Poems 1892-1929. London: “Privately printed at The Fanfare Press”, 1929. Small folio. Mounted photographed portrait frontispiece signed by the author (some very light mainly marginal staining). Special binding of full white pigskin by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, top edges gilt, others uncut, slipcase. Provenance: Loelia Westminster (bookplate). ONE OF 50 COPIES, indistinctly numbered. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed on the front free endpaper, “Loelia [Duchess of Westminster] from Maurice, with best wishes, 1930.” With 3 other books by the same author, namely Hildesheim. Quatre Pastiches (Paris, 1899, half morocco, the author’s copy, presented by Lady Reid to the British Embassy in Paris), Translations: Ancient and Modern (London, [1918], half morocco, original wrappers bound in) and Hildesheim (London, 1924, wrappers, box, ONE OF 115 COPIES SIGNED BY](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2015/CSK/2015_CSK_11606_0021_000(baring_maurice_poems_1892-1929_london_privately_printed_at_the_fanfare115904).jpg?w=1)
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BARING, Maurice. Poems 1892-1929. London: “Privately printed at The Fanfare Press”, 1929. Small folio. Mounted photographed portrait frontispiece signed by the author (some very light mainly marginal staining). Special binding of full white pigskin by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, top edges gilt, others uncut, slipcase. Provenance: Loelia Westminster (bookplate). ONE OF 50 COPIES, indistinctly numbered. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed on the front free endpaper, “Loelia [Duchess of Westminster] from Maurice, with best wishes, 1930.” With 3 other books by the same author, namely Hildesheim. Quatre Pastiches (Paris, 1899, half morocco, the author’s copy, presented by Lady Reid to the British Embassy in Paris), Translations: Ancient and Modern (London, [1918], half morocco, original wrappers bound in) and Hildesheim (London, 1924, wrappers, box, ONE OF 115 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR). Hildesheim was Baring's first commercial publication.
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