Mar 31, 2016 - Sale 2408

Sale 2408 - Lot 289

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Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(LITERATURE AND POETRY.) BRAITHWAITE, WILLIAM STANLEY. Lyrics of Life and Love. Portrait frontispiece of the poet. 80 pages. Tall narrow 8vo, original cloth backed paper-covered boards with title within a gilt triangle on the upper cover; very slight wear. Boston: Herbert T. Turner, 1904

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first edition of the poet's scarce first book, printed at his own expense, and sold door to door by him. William Stanley Braithwaite, (1878-1962) poet, editor, and anthologist was responsible for the long series of annual Anthologies of Magazine Verse beginning in 1913 and unbroken until 1939.