Buy this book on-line JOHN BUCHAN : contributes his seventeen-verse poem 'The Song of the Sea Captain' (later included in his 1917 collection 'Poems in Scots and English') to the anthology A Beggar's Wallet. Containing Contributions in Prose, Verse and Pictorial Illustration, Gathered from Certain Works in Art and Letters. Edited with an introduction by Archibald Stodart WalkerPrinted by Dobson, Molle & Co., in aid of The Royal Victoria Hospital for Consumption, Edinburgh, 1905
First Edition (first printing). 4to. 291pp. Vellum-backed cloth, lettered in gold at the spine and with two gilt-stamped decorations. Top edge gilt. Captioned tissue-protected frontispiece, and sixteen further tissue-protected plates. Spine ends and corner tips just fractionally rubbed. Free endpapers browned. Very good indeed. A handsomely produced selection of prose, verse and illustration, the contributors including G.K.Chesterton ('Sonnet: Free Love'), Eden Phillpotts, Lady Margaret Sackville, Arthur C.Benson, James Candenhead, Coulson Kernahan, Robert Buchanan, Alfred Noyes, John Duncan, William Rothenstein, Mortimer Mempes, A.G.Sinclair and the editor.. Book. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hardcover Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of JOHN BUCHAN : contributes his seventeen-verse poem 'The Song of the Sea Captain' (later included in his 1917 collection 'Poems in Scots and English') to the anthology A Beggar's Wallet. Containing Contributions in Prose, Verse and Pictorial Illustration, Gathered from Certain Works in Art and Letters. Edited with an introduction by Archibald Stodart Walker. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including fine bindings, used books, livres rares, livres illustrées and rare books. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |