[Rarebooks] FS: First American Edition of LYRICAL BALLADS, WWI poet Alan Seeger's copy

[Charles Agvent]

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WORDSWORTH, William (COLERIDGE, Samuel T.). LYRICAL BALLADS,  WITH
OTHER  POEMS:  IN  TWO VOLUMES. Philadelphia:  James  Humphreys  1802.
First  Edition. Two volumes bound in one in contemporary calf recently
rebacked.  The  First American Edition printed from the Second  London
Edition  and including the first printing of Coleridge's "The Rime  of
the  Ancient  Mariner" in America. Shaw & Shoemaker, 3593.  This  copy
sold  at  the  George  H. Conley sale, 12  January  1911,  lot  #1623.
Armorial  bookplate of William Richards Castle on the front  pastedown
and  pencil  signature  on the front endpaper dated 1907  of  American
poet  Alan  Seeger who, as a member of the French Foreign Legion,  was
killed  in action 4 July 1916 on the Somme at the age of 28.  Seeger's
poem,  "I  Have  a  Rendevous with Death," was the  most  popular  and
widely-quoted  American  poem  of  World War I. Also  an  early  owner
inscription  on  the  front  blank  to Ann Wharton  from  "C.  H.  W."
Wharton's  name neatly excised on the blank margins of two text pages.
Some  staining  on  a few pages at the rear. Very Good or  better  and
quite scarce.                                                 $7500.00

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