Poems Lyrical and Idyllic

by Edmund Clarence Stedman

$8,009 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

First edition

FIRST EDITION of the author's first book. 12mo. Contemporary half calf, with gilt-lettered leather lettering-piece on spine, and author's initials stamped in gilt at foot, E. C. S. , Condition: Spine ends and corners worn and scuffed; sides rubbed; early newspaper clipping on rear pastedown. Some light marginal toning and stains. BAL 18566. Provenance: Edmund C. Stedman author's own copy, with inscriptions and binding ; presumably

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