Songs of the Dawn and Irish Ditties
New York: P.J. Kenedy & Son, 1913. 1st Edition. Publisher's Cloth. Very Good/Near Fine. Item #012513
12mo., 92pp.. Sharp First Edition of this pretty book of Irish poetry. Bound in publisher's green cloth with titles in gilt on front board. Frontis portrait photograph of the author. Square, solid and clean throughout with little or no toning or foxing. Some light spotting on the rear end-paper. Mild wear to spine ends and tips. Fresh and bright cloth and gilt. From the library of noted New Jersey Irish-Ameican author, collector and professor of Irish history and literature, Tom Fox, with his unobtrusive blind-stamp on the title page and his small, neat signature on the front paste-down. Fox was called by Nicholas Basbanes, ",,, a kindred spirit...assembler of an uncommonly distinctive collection of Irish history and literature". A very pretty collectable copy.
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