[Rarebooks] FS: Inscribed Bliss Carmen with AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT SIGNED, bound in 3/4 morocco

[Charles Agvent]

CARMAN,  Bliss  & HOVEY, Richard. SONGS FROM  VAGABONDIA
          bound with  MORE SONGS FROM VAGABONDIA bound with LAST  SONGS
          FROM VAGABONDIA.  Boston: Small, Maynard & Co 1916. The three
          volumes,  all  later editions, are handsomely bound  together
          in brown  3/4 morocco with gilt rules, five raised bands, and
          a gilt-decorated  spine.  SIGNED "Very Sincerely  yours/Bliss
          Carman"  on a front blank. Laid into this attractive book  is
          an AUTOGRAPH  MANUSCRIPT SIGNED by Carman, nine couplets from
          the poems  "The  Joys of the Road," contained in  SONGS  FROM
          VAGABONDIA.  It begins "Asking nothing, revealing naught,/But
          minting  his  words from a fund of thought" and ends  "Seeing
          it good  as when God first saw/And gave it the weight of  his
          will for  law." The size of the paper, Hotel Henry stationery
          from Pittsburgh,  is  6"  x  9-1/2"   and  is  in  Very  Good
          condition  with  one  of the folds starting  to  split.  Fine
                                                                $350.00

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