[Rarebooks] FS: Bliss Carman, finely bound, Signed, and with an AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT

[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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