A Wreath for Edwin Markham: Tributes From the Poets of America on His Seventieth Birthday, April 23, 1922 [Limited Edition, Inscribed and Signed by Edwin Markham and Signed by Anna Catherine Markham]
Chicago: Bookfellows, 1922. Very Good. Item #13771
Chicago: Bookfellows, 1922. First Edition, Limited to 300 copies. Slim octavo; publisher's cloth-backed paper-covered boards, pictorial upper cover stamped in black and gilt, housed in custom cloth slipcase; 47pp.; silhouette of Markham signed by the artist (not quite legible), final three leaves of text printed in facsimile manuscript. Boards a shade toned along margins, corners gently bumped, else Very Good or better overall. Signed by contributor Anna Catherine Markham on p. 41. Also with lengthy signed inscription by Edwin Markham himself on front free endpaper reproducing a four-line stanza from the poem "Virgilia."
Lovely tribute dedicated to poet and Bookfellow no. 56 with brief contributions by Witter Bynner, Zona Gale, Vincent Starrett, and a multitude of others.
Price: $125.00