George Sharar Steuart (1 results)

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. None (illustrator). First edition. A very scarce first edition of this charming, often humorous collection of poetry by George Sharar Steuart"s poems. In the publisher's original cloth binding.First edition.An exceptionally scarce copy of this work, with just one copy held institutionally at the University of Maryland Libraries.Illustrated with a frontispiece sketch portrait of the author. Collated, complete.These poems, many of which first appeared in various newspapers, were collected and published at the urging of the author"s friends. A charming and often humorous collection of poetry, with pieces such as "Women"s Tears," "Love"s Shipwreck," "The Spangled Show," "To Miss April," "In the Stilly Night," "To a Lilac," "The Hypocrite," "Musings in Greenmount Cemetery," "We Tawin," and "Baltimore Beautiful," among many others. In the publisher's original cloth binding.Bookplate of Alfred J. O'Ferrall to front paste down. Externally, generally smart. Spotting to perimeters of front board. Slight rubbing and bumping to extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean if slightly age toned to fore edge. Age toning to frontispiece. Very Good. book.