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The Queen's Christmas Carol. An Anthology of Poems, Stories, Essays, Drawings and Music By British Author, Artists and Composers.
London, "Daily Mail", 1905, First edition. Hardcover . Quarto, white cloth stamped in green. viii, (120) pp. Frontispiece photogravure portrait of Queen Alexandra with tissue guard and 14 other black & white plates inserted. Covers lightly soiled, bit of foxing to endpapers, Xmas 1905 ink in scription to front free endpaper, corner crease to one leaf; otherwise externally VG, internally fine. Published as a fund-raiser for the Queen's Fund for the Unemployed. Contributions by Alfred Austen, E.A. Abbey, Hall Caine, Marie Corelli, Austin Dobson, Sir Edward Elgar, W.S. Gilbert, Sarah Grand, Thomas Hardy, W. Holman Hunt, W.W. Jacobs, George Meredith, Arthur Morrison, Sir Gilbert Parker, Max Pemberton, A.W. Pinero, G.R. Sims, Solomon J. Solomon, Alfred Sutro, Bram Stoker, A.C. Swinburn e, Theodore Watts-Dunton, Israel Zangwill, and others. Includes facsimile signatures of the contributors. Hardy contributes the poem "Orphaned", Bram Stoker contributes the poem "The One Thing Needful". Sir Gilbert Parker contributes the poems "In C amp at Juniper Cove" and "Juniper Cover Twenty Years After" (pp 101-04).
Offered for US$ 27.50 by: Steven Temple Books (ABAC/ILAB) - Book number: 13681
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