[Rarebooks] fs: Townsend. Poems of the Delaware Peninsula, 1st

[Back Creek Books]

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We are pleased to offer:
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(No. 11270 )  Townsend, George Alfred "Gath" (1841-1914). POEMS OF THE 
DELAWARE PENINSULA.
[Wilmington]: [Every Evening Printing Company], [1913]. First printing, 
Original cloth, Octavo, 200 pages, Frontispiece photograph. Near Fine.
      The last book Townsend wrote. Most of the poems in this scarce volume 
were written while the author lay sick in a hospital bed, and were therefore 
distilled entirely from his own memories of scenes and incidents on the 
Delaware Peninsula and Maryland's Eastern Shore. Tissue-guarded frontispiece 
photograph shows Townsend as an old man. No publisher information in the 
book but see Ruth Hindes, "George Alfred Townsend," p. 59. PRATT, EASTERN 
SHORE #1174. Bound in brown cloth over boards with gilt-stamped spine title, 
decorated endpapers. Binding shows some rubs and mild fraying at spine ends 
and along lower fore edge of upper board. Fore corners slightly bumped. Very 
nice overall, with sound hinges....... $100.00
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