Castle Gay, and Other Poems
$57.75 NZD • Used
Cloth split and frayed along length of lower joint. Front hinge broken. Text block nearly detached from boards. 2" by 1/2" chip to blank margin of one preliminary leaf. ; Inscribed in ink on verso...
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Cloth split and frayed along length of lower joint. Front hinge broken. Text block nearly detached from boards. 2" by 1/2" chip to blank margin of one preliminary leaf. ; Inscribed in ink on verso of frontispiece "To Mrs McKinnon A Memento of old times from the Author Spring Field Dec 14th 1883". xv, [1 (errata)], 304 pages + frontispiece with mounted photographic portrait of the author. Original blind-stamped boards with title "Poems" in gilt on spine and front board. Page dimensions: 185 x 118mm. The preliminary leaves include a 6 page list of subscribers. Lively verse. "There are some men who dream and rhyme on all and sundry pleas, / The passion governs all their thoughts, a strange sort of disease;" - page 185. [Reference: Bagnall 1898]; 12mo 7" - 7" tall; Signed by Author
Product Info
Publisher: Printed By John Mackay
Year: 1883
Type: Used
Binding: Hardcover
First Edition
Signed
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RenaissanceBooks
Address: PO Box 335 Dunedin, Not Required
Website: https://renaissancebooks.co.nz
Country: New Zealand
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