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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.
by JOHN BUCHAN
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- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
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About This Item
Printed by Dobson, Molle & Co., in aid of The Royal Victoria Hospital for Consumption, Edinburgh, 1905. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 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..
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- Clearwater Books
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- Title
- 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.
- Author
- JOHN BUCHAN
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Printed by Dobson, Molle & Co., in aid of The Royal Victoria Hospital for Consumption, Edinburgh
- Date Published
- 1905
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