Poetical works ... Household Edition with illustrations
Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., [1890]. 8vo, pp. [iii]-xi, [5], 403; text in double column; engraved frontispiece portrait and 11 plates; slightly later full turquoise crushed morocco by MacDonald Bindery, NY, with single gilt rule on covers, gilt-decorated spine in 6 compartments, gilt lettered in 2, a.e.g.; spine lightly discolored, upper joint rubbed; very good. With a warm inscription on the second flyleaf "For Mrs. Florence James Adams," and dated "Beverley Farms, Mass., September 13th, 1893," incorporating a 7-line poem signed by the poet in full, beginning "Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul..." being the final stanza of his well-known poem, The Chambered Nautilus. BAL 9201. Item #35943
Price: $950.00
