Nine Poetical Works. Whitman, Walt (1819-1892), Leaves of Grass, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co, 1940, bound in woven green cloth, dis

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  Nine Poetical Works. Whitman, Walt (1819-1892), Leaves of Grass, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co, 1940, bound in woven green cloth, discoloration to spine, green colored head edge, illustrated throughout by Lewis C. Daniel, in custom green paper slipcase, 11 x 8 1/2 in.; Mansfield, Katherine (1888-1923), Poems, New York: Knopf, 1924, quarter-bound in green cloth with orange and white patterned paper, signature "John Bakiliss 26 January 1924," 8 1/4 x 5 3/4 in.; Brooke, Rupert (1887-1915), The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke, New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1946, half-bound in red leather with marbled paper, gilt-lettered and gilt-stamped on spine, gilt head edge, bookplate ex libris Cynthia E Browne, frontispiece photogravure of Brooke, 8 x 5 1/2 in.; Gilbert, W. S. (1836-1911), The Best Known Works of W.S. Gilbert, New York: Illustrated Editions Company, 1932, bound in tan and blue textured cloth, gilt-stamped on front cover, illustrated throughout with author's illustrations, 8 1/4 x 5 3/4 in.; Macneice, Louis (1907-1963), Springboard: Poems 1941-1944, London: Faber and Faber, 1944, bound in red cloth, gilt-lettered on spine, signed "Edith Weaver" on front endpaper, 9 x 5 3/4 in.; Millay, Edna St. Vincent (1892-1950), Second April, New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1921, first edition, first printing, bound in black cloth, gilt-lettered on front cover and spine, signature "Yo...a Millay" on first free endpaper, 7 3/4 x 5 in.; Millay, Edna St. Vincent (1892-1950), Aria da Capo: A Play in One Act, New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1921, bound in black cloth, gilt-lettered on front cover and spine, 8 x 7 3/4 in.; Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882), The Song of Hiawatha, Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1855, bound in brown cloth, blind embossed on front cover, gilt-lettered on spine, 7 1/2 x 5 in.; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850), The Complete Works of William Wordsworth, London: Collins' Clear-Type Press, c. 1900, fully bound in red leather, gilt-lettered on front cover and spine, damage to leather at head of the spine and fore-edge of front cover, full gilt edges, frontispiece portrait of Wordsworth, illustrated throughout, 7 1/2 x 5 3/4 in.
  
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