Poems, Complete Edition with Recent Poems
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1941. [POETRY]. Second edition, first published in 1935, March. 8vo; xvii, [v], 673pp; three quarter red goatskin over red cloth boards; gilt ruling, 5 raised bands, gilt ornaments and lettering on spine; top edge gilt; pink and green marbled eps, bookplate of “Catherine Coolidge” on front pastedown; b&w portrait of Masefield on fp; light sunning to upper rear board, a small light spot on front, else fine. Item #2306
John Masefield (1878-1967) was the poet laureate of England, and possibly most famous to Americans for his ballad-poem "Sea Fever" published in 1902. This volume is divided into the following sections: Salt-Water Ballads; Miscellaneous Poems; The Everlasting Mercy; The Widow in the Bye Street; Dauber; The Daffodil Fields; Sonnets and Other Poems; Lollingdon Downs, and Other Poems; Poems from the Wanderer; and Poems from Minnie Maylow’s Story.
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