TREE, Iris. Poems by Iris Tree. Privately Printed at the Guardian Press, Nassau, Bahamas, 1917. Title-page in black and red. Narrow sm.folio, drab brown wrappers, printed in black, sewn. Some wear and creasing. THE AUTHOR’S RARE FIRST BOOK. Inscribed to Nancy Cunard: “Nancy darling from darling Iris”. With Poems, New York, 1919; and The Same, London, 1920 (from American sheets), with decorations by Curtis Moffat. Original yellow and beige cloths, slightly stained. The 1917 Poems were produced while Tree was on her honeymoon with Curtis Moffat. Also included in the Lot are 4 Autograph letters signed from Tree to Clive Bell, London, Sussex, Belvoir Castle, March-April 1915, 12 pages, 8vo. Provocative or threatening: “You shall seek my footprints in the Bloomsbury dust and your sole pleasure shall be to burn me in effigy… You are a very foolish man to have rejected the steely swordplay of my glances..”.