The Glass Tower

Nicholas Moore. Drawings by Lucian Freud.

Editions Poetry London. London. 1944. First edition. Hardback, octavo; black cloth-backed paper-covered illustrated boards with gilt title to spine, dust jacket. 128 pages. 3 b&w and 3 colour plates reproducing drawings by Lucian Freud (5 with blank verso), 10 text illustrations (1 in colour) by Freud. English. 220 x 150mm. 0.3kg. . Good, in good dust jacket; light wear to jacket, small nicks to head of spine and rear lower forecorner, browning to spine, light toning to front and rear panels, not price-clipped; light shelf wear to boards, some rubbing to lower edge and forecorners, dustiness to top edge, spotting to endpapers.

Lucian Freud was 22 when he illustrated the poems of Nicholas Moore for The Glass Tower. It was his first illustrated book, with The Equilibriad (1948) being the second and last. Freud's drawings are of the natural world, animals and landscapes, and they reflect the symbolic and hallucinatory nature of Moore's poetry.