Noyes, Alfred — Collected Poems

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Frederick A. Stokes, . First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. A perfectly serviceable set, complete in three volumes, the first two having been published in 1913, the final volume in 1920. Handsomely bound in blue cloth over boards, generously apportioned leather over tips and spine, ruled in gilt, and with sharp and distinct gilt lettering to spines. Each protected in stiff plastic jacket, each top edge gilt, scuffing to tips, spine heads and feet, edges, sunning along interior edges of endpapers, else clean and unmarked. Nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy; fine black-and-white photograph of the author at frontis of Volume I, tissue-guarded, and with publisher device to each title page. Volume I: vi, 1-426 pp.; Volume II: vi, 1-451 pp.; Volume III: ix, 1-315 pp. The author, British playwrite and poet, Alfred Noyes (16 September 1880 – 25 June 1958), was born in Wolverhampton, England, the son of a teacher of Latin and Greek, and matriculated at Exeter College, Oxford, though he did not graduate therefrom. He published his first volume of poems, The Loom of Years, in 1902 and then another five volumes from 1903 to 1913 (Wikipedia).Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good