Salt-Water Ballads
- London: Grant Richards, 1902
London: Grant Richards, 1902. Very Good -. London: Grant Richards, 1902. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm); [xvi],112pp. Publisher's blue buckram with gilt lettering to spine; top edge gilt with bottom and fore-edge deckled. Boards scuffed at corners and along joints, with some bumps along edges, runs to cloth, and some general soiling and toning. Front hinge cracked with some separation along tail-end of front free endpaper; binding otherwise secure and sound. . Pages toned with a couple showing brief horizontal tears at fore-edge not touching text. Pages unmarked.
First Edition of the author's first book, including his perhaps best-known poem, "Sea Fever." 500 copies were printed — 300 in blue and 150 in black, with the final 50 issued by De La More Press with a cancel title in 1906.
[WIGHT 1; SIMMONS 1].
First Edition of the author's first book, including his perhaps best-known poem, "Sea Fever." 500 copies were printed — 300 in blue and 150 in black, with the final 50 issued by De La More Press with a cancel title in 1906.
[WIGHT 1; SIMMONS 1].