Buy this book on-line Markham, Edwin : The Man with the Hoe; By Reason of Universal Demand. Supplement to the Sunday ExaminerW. R. Hearst, San Francisco, CA, 1899
Limited Edition, one of 1000 copies printed. Original publisher's supplement to the San Francisco's _Sunday Examiner_ printed on beige paper. Color illustrations on front and back. Black-and-white illustration printed on interior pages. Portrait photograph of Edwin Markham and an illustration of the eponymous man with the hoe printed on front panel. 10 3/4" x 13 3/4." Four pages (one leaf folded in half), complete. Pages are very clean and intact except for slight wrinkling throughout and possible browning. A Very Good copy. First Edition of Edwin Markham's famous poem, "The Man with the Hoe." Edwin Markham (1852-1940) was an American poet who is perhaps best-known for this poem. Markham was inspired to write "The Man with the Hoe" after viewing Jean-Francois Millet's Realist painting of the same name, _L'homme a la houe_, which, like the poem, laments the plight of working-class people who toil their entires lives for little to no reward. "The Man with the Hoe" helped catapult Markham to fame and success, and it was eventually published in thirty-seven languages. Excerpt from the poem: "Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans / Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, / The emptiness of ages in his face, / And on his back the burden of the world. / Who made him dead to rapture and despair, / A thing that grieves not and that never hopes, / Stolid and stunned, a brother to the ox? / Who loosened and let down his brutal jaw? / Whose was the hand that slanted back his brow? / Whose breath blew out the light within his brain?" Quoted from Merle Johnson, Page 347: "1,000 copies printed. Pamphlet. The publisher stated '... part of the edition was printed on white and part on toned paper ... they [the toned paper copies] are original issues same as the white.' The poem was ... issued as a supplement to the San Francisco _Examiner_, January 15, 1899.". Book. Book Condition: Collectible-Very Good. Binding: No Binding 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 Markham, Edwin : The Man with the Hoe; By Reason of Universal Demand. Supplement to the Sunday Examiner. 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 out of print books, livres illustrées, atlases, livres d'occasion and fine bindings. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |