Songs Of Childhood : In Custom Clamshell Book Box

Ramal, Walter (Pseudonym of De La Mare, Walter)

Published by Longmans, Green, And Co., New York, New York / Bombay, India, 1902

About this Item

106 pages: 5 x 7.5 in.: KB#010210: No Jacket As Issued. Book binding is spine and quarter cream paper with blue cloth boards (with gilt ship embossed on front cover) plus decorated gilt lettered spine. Top edge of page block is gilt. Book is protected in a custom brown cloth gilt-lettered clamshell book box. Copy has prior owner's bookplate (Oliver Brett) neatly affixed to front endpaper and a stamp on front flyleaf, p. 103, and rear endpaper of "College For Working Women", along with a "Bought Davis 1921 and K195" notation at the front. Otherwise, clamshell box, boards and pages are clean, unmarked (except as indicated), bright, tightly bound and sharp cornered. Has a tissue-protected frontispiece illustration about twenty dancing fairies by Richard Doyle, entitled "Under the Dock Leaves." This is Walter De La Mare's first book, a collection of poetry which he wrote under the pen name (pseudonym) of Walter Ramal. Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. Seller Inventory # 010210

Bibliographic Details

Title: Songs Of Childhood : In Custom Clamshell ...

Publisher: Longmans, Green, And Co., New York, New York / Bombay, India

Publication Date: 1902

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket As Issued

Edition: First Edition: First Printing.