Louis How — A Hidden Well: Lyrics and Sonnets

Boston, Sherman, French & Company, 1916 . First edition. Hardback. A very scarce signed presentation copy of this collection of lyrics and sonnets by American poet Louis How, with a frontispiece. The very scarce first edition of the work.Signed and inscribed by the author to the title page, to the novelist Reginald Wright Kauffman and his wife.In publisher's original hardback binding.A collection of lyrics and sonnets by Louis How, a prolific American poet and a biographer of his grandfather, James Buchanan Eads, who built the Eads Bridge crossing the Mississippi River at St. Louis.Includes a frontispiece, and works such as Impatience, Sickness, A Message, Moloch, One Truth, and many more. In publisher's hardback binding, Externally, very smart. Shelf wear to extremities, with bumping to the head and tail of the spine. Light age toning to endpapers, with author's ink inscription to the front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good .