London: Grant Richards, 1902. Original blue cloth. First Edition of Masefield's first book, which consisted of only 500 copies. Encouraged by Yeats and with the title chosen by the publisher, Masefield quit his bank job and decided to try his hand at nautical verse and (later) prose. The title unfortunately.....
![THE SEVEN SEAS. [with presentation note signed]. Rudyard Kipling](/pictures/thumb/14479.jpg?v=1581607925)
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1896. 6 pp undated ads. Original coarse mottled light-brown buckram cloth decorated in gilt, with dust jacket. First (American) Edition, published on 30 October 1896, the same day as Methuen's English edition. This volume of verse includes two of Kipling's better-known poems, "A Song.....
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.....
