[Rarebooks] FS: Poet Alan Seeger's Copy of Wordsworth's LYRICAL BALLADS, 1802, price reduced
Charles Agvent
charles at charlesagvent.com
Wed Apr 29 09:42:48 EDT 2020
Price reduced to $6000 NET
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. In 1907 Seeger was a freshman at Harvard, and
Castle's son was finishing his doctoral studies there. 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.
Volume 1, page 96 misnumbered "78"; volume 2, page 96 misnumbered "57."
(#014549) $7,500
https://www.charlesagvent.com/pages/books/014549/william-wordsworth-samuel-t-coleridge/lyrical-ballads-with-other-poems-in-two-volumes
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