San Francisco: W.E. Wood, 1903. Original dark blue-grey cloth pictorially decorated in gilt and purple. First Edition, first issue, of this volume of verse, much of it ironic and/or satirical; some of the poems had appeared in Bierce's 1892 collection, BLACK BEETLES IN AMBER. This copy is in the presumed.....
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London: Methuen and Co., 1896. Original dark red buckram with pictorial vignette in gilt. First English Edition, containing three poems not in the slightly earlier American edition. This volume of verse (largely nautical) includes "A Song of the English" and "Hymn Before Action." This is one of 150 large-paper copies.....
[the dedicatee's copy] London: George Allen, 1907. Original deep reddish-brown cloth, with dust jacket. First Edition, first issue (with top edge gilt and other edges untrimmed) of this collection of 26 poems -- the poet's first book, published when he was 26. Hodgson (1871-1962) was a reclusive man who avoided.....
