MASEFIELD, JOHN. Salt-Water Ballads. London: Grant Richards 1902. 8vo, original royal blue buckram, t.e.g., others uncut, spine a trifle darkened, slight rubbing, cloth folding case. FIRST EDITION of the author's first book, one of 500 copies, FIRST ISSUE (a portion of the edition appeared later with a cancelled title-page bearing the Elkin Mathews imprint); a handful of copies are known in a trial binding of midnight-blue buckram. Simmons 1; Hadley-Taylor, p. 27. Contains the well-known poem "Sea-Fever" (beginning "I must down to the seas again").
MASEFIELD, JOHN. Salt-Water Ballads. London: Grant Richards 1902. 8vo, original royal blue buckram, t.e.g., others uncut, spine a trifle darkened, slight rubbing, cloth folding case. FIRST EDITION of the author's first book, one of 500 copies, FIRST ISSUE (a portion of the edition appeared later with a cancelled title-page bearing the Elkin Mathews imprint); a handful of copies are known in a trial binding of midnight-blue buckram. Simmons 1; Hadley-Taylor, p. 27. Contains the well-known poem "Sea-Fever" (beginning "I must down to the seas again").
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