Stated first edition (first printing "D-Y"). Illustrated with 7 vivid color plates. Very Good, green cloth with gilt titles and illustration on front and spine, small bump to bottom edge of front board, color designed endpapers, unobtrusive non-authorial gift inscription on ffep and on second endpaper, dated 1928. Contents are broken into catagories: Lullabies; Birds, Beasts, and Flowers; Out-of-Doors; House and Home; History and Native Land; Legends and Stories; Humor; and Prayers, Graces, Cards, and Meditations. Poems by St Walter Scott, Shakespeare, Lord Tennyson, Kipling, Walter de la Mare, George MacDonald, Emily Dickinson, Robert Louis Stevenson, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Robert Browning, Charles Kingsley, Shelley, Louise Collier Willcox, Longfellow, Whittier, and many more. 513 pages. Seller Inventory # 18500

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Title: The Torch: A Book of Poems for Boys

Publisher: Harper & Brothers, New York

Publication Date: 1924

Binding: Hardcover

Illustrator: Elizabeth Shippen Green

Condition: Very Good

Edition: First Edition

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