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    By Grace Hazard Conkling
    Boston and New York   Houghton Mifflin Company
    8" by 5.5" viii, [1], 89, [3pp]
    A very scarce first edition copy of this anthology of poems by Grace Conkling, inscribed by the author.
    By Grace Hazard Conkling

    1915 Afternoons of April: A Book of Verse

    Boston and New York   Houghton Mifflin Company
    8" by 5.5" viii, [1], 89, [3pp]
    A very scarce first edition copy of this anthology of poems by Grace Conkling, inscribed by the author.
    £125.00
    : 0.5kgs / : 949P64
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    Description

    Author's Presentation Copy, First Edition, Original Binding, Signed, Very Scarce

    The first edition of this very scarce work.

    Author's presentation copy, inscribed by the author to the recto of the front endpaper, "For Lucy Taylor, from, Graze Hazard Conkling, May 1925. Today my little ship comes home - ".

    Grace Hazard Conkling's first published collection of verses, containing titles such as: 'Proserpina and the Sea-Nymphs', 'The Barberry Bush', 'The White Peak', 'On Arranging a Bowl of Violets', and 'To a New-Born Baby Girl', amongst others.

    Conkling was a noted American author, and mother of fellow poet Hilda Conkling.

    Condition

    In the original publisher's paper covered boards. Externally, smart. Light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Spine is a little sunned. A few light marks to the boards and spine, very light rubbing to the spine. Author's inscription to the recto of the front endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean.

    Very Good Indeed

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