MARKHAM, Edwin

New Poems. Eighty Songs at Eighty

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, 1932. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original green pigskin-backed batik boards, top edges gilt; publisher's slipcase. A few slight marks on spine, but a fine copy. Item #409449

First edition, one of 100 numbered copies in this special binding signed by the poet (this is no. 89). Presentation copy, inscribed (full-page) by Markham: "To Ray Cecil Carter, in memory of a happy meeting in April in the capitol – what capitol – the only one of high significance – Albany! Victory attend him to the end of days. Edwin Markham. 'Love and I.' April 8, 1932." Merle Johnson, p. 437 (not noting this limited, signed issue).

Price: $150.00