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Lawrence, Ruth. - The Beggar's Garden.

NY: Brentano's, 1903. 1903. - 8vo, light green cloth (lightly bumped & lightly spotted) titled in dark green on spine & in gilt on front cover with vignette of flowering branch stamped in dark green, pink & gilt. [viii] & 106 pp. (tiny chips to front edges of 5 leaves). Illustrated with B&W frontispiece & 11 B&W plates from photographs (tiny tear to margin of 1 plate). Very nice.

First edition.

Inscribed by the author on the front endpaper in the year of publication and signed in full. With the bookplate of the Onteora Library, a retreat, at the end of the nineteenth century, in the Catskills for the likes of Mark Twain and Mary Mapes Dodge.

The photographs depict places, such as Arlington Cemetery, Versailles, Hampton Court and Mulberry Street, which inspired the poems. Very good .

USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 9.5 | £UK 8 | JP¥ 1568] Book number 918

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