A Book of Verse by Langworthy, Charles A - 1916

Augusta, Maine: Kenebec Journal Company, 1916. First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Brown cloth with gilt lettering. Light bump to head and heel of spine and tips of corners. Scuffing to boards. Small tear to front margin of pages 3-8. Text is otherwise clean and bright, no marks. "Should this book come into the hands of anyone outside the college circle, such a person should feel no sort of obligation to choke himself with this particular dust from the hoof of Pegasus. On the other hand, it should be said that these are not, for the most part, college poems. Some of them were written before I came to college; some, I am afraid, before I entered high school. Could I have flattered myself with the certainty of improvement with growing experience, I might have arranged them in some appoximation of chronological sequence. As it is, they are thrown together, not without any principle of arrangement, I trust, but not at all in the order of composition." (from the Preface)