New Zealand Verse - collected by W. F.Alexander and A. E Currie.

New Zealand Verse - collected by W. F.Alexander and A. E Currie.
Half-title: The Canterbury Poets.

Publisher : The Walter Scott Publishing Co., 1906. First edition. (Bagnall A208)

VERY SCARCE.

Small hardback book in red cloth, 14cm x 11cm. Gilt pattern and title to front cover and spine, gilt to top closed edge of pages.
271 pages, Index of authors and bibliographical reference pp 260-265, Index of first lines, pp266-271. Plus publisher's adverts at rear.
Binding firm, corners are a little rubbed and bumped, cloth is bubbled on back cover, minor marks, spine is very faded and dulled down with some chipping to ends, and rubbing, end-papers are very tanned/foxed, pages have light foxing, some have rough edges, light creasing, p269/270 has a piece torn off the outside margin, which is still attached to page 271, this is because the pages were not separated properly at the edge when printed.

There are two interesting gift inscriptions to ffep, (One dedication is to Professor Arnold Wall CBE, of Canterbury College NZ). The second inscription says: transferred to Fay Myers 1960 and signed with the initials A W - (Arnold Wall).

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