Buy this book on-line WILLIAM HOPE HODGSON : The Calling of the Sea. PoemsSelwyn & Blount, London [1920].
First edition (first printing) of the author's posthumously issued first collection of verse. Slim 8vo. 48pp. Paper-covered boards with a tanned paper spine label. Photographic portrait frontispiece. Boards a little marked and rubbed. The binding just a fraction tender at the title page, and with some spotting to the free endpapers, pastedowns and to several preliminary and concluding leaves. A nice bright copy. Lacking the fugitive dust wrapper. A four-page introduction by A St. John Adcock precedes sixteen poems. Hodgson was killed in action in April 1918 at the Fourth Battle of Ypres. His widow 'Bessie' Farnworth and his close friend Arthur Adcock collected his verse, issuing two posthumous collections, the present volume and a year later 'The Voice of the Ocean' (1921). 500 copies were printed. Uncommon.. Book. Book Condition: Good. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: No Jacket 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 WILLIAM HOPE HODGSON : The Calling of the Sea. Poems. 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, antiquarian books, livres rares, livres anciens and libri antichi. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |