Round Year by Edith Thomas: Signed (1 results)
More imagesPublished by Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1886
- Hardcover
- Signed
Seller: North Star Rare Books & Manuscripts, Sheffield, MA, U.S.A.North Star Rare Books & Manuscripts
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Small octavo, green cloth lettered in gilt; top edge gilt; slightly rubbed. First edition. A presentation copy, inscribed: "To Mrs. Gilder, with dear regards of the author, Edith M. Thomas, Jan 16th, 1887," below which she has penned an 18-line poem, starting "Lady of the fair estate." Helena Gil…der, the wife of longtime Century Magazine editor Richard Watson Gilder, who published many of Thomas's poems in his magazine, served as an occasional model and was the unrequited love of the painter Winslow Homer; with R. W. Gilder's library bookplate on the front free endpaper. A rare publication with a distinguished provenance. Inscribed by Author(s).
