A Talk with Edwin Markham
by Fred Lockley
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good+
- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
1920. Soft cover. Very Good+. Staple-bound in thin card wraps. No date (published circa 1920's). Light soiling to rear cover. Previous owner's name on inside of front cover, otherwise interior is clean. Frontispiece portrait of Markham. [12] pages. 6.8 x 5 inches. Philosophical reflections of the American poet, Edwin Markham (1852-1940), as recorded by Fred Lockley, who had recently spent an hour talking with him. The subject of Markham's was "the unveiled mystery of life and the veiled mystery of death." Markham had been the inaugural Poet Laureate of Oregon for the years 1923 to 1931. Fred Lockley (1871-1958) was an Oregon journalist and historian, who at one point had been the tutor of the future United States President Herbert Hoover. This copy of A Talk with Edwin Markham belonged to Ruth Hopkins Strode, the society editor for the Oregon Journal & Oregonian, 1926-1944.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Boyd Used & Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013829
- Title
- A Talk with Edwin Markham
- Author
- Fred Lockley
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- Date Published
- 1920
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Edwin Markham, Oregon author, Oregon, poet laureate,
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.