The Hope of the World and Other Poems

Springfield, MA: New England Publishing Co, 1900. Very Good. Springfield, MA: New England Publishing Co., 1900. First Edition. Slim quarto; publisher's brown gilt-embossed cloth; 93pp.; frontispiece, illus. throughout, including many from photographs. Boards rubbed at margins, corners bumped, front hinge starting but holding, foxing to endpapers, else a Very Good copy overall.

Uncommon collection of religious poetry by the blind author, naturalist, and lecturer Clarence Hawkes (1869-1954).