[Poetry] Tamburlaine And Other Verses
[Riverside, Connecticut]: Hillacre, 1917. First Edition.
Small Quarto (9 3/4 x 6 3/8 inches; 245 x 160 mm), 41, [1] pages, blue paper over heavy gray card stock, printed label to upper board (hard cover).
A collection of 25 poems, one of 450 copies on Utopian laid paper from a total edition of 500. For many readers, poems by John Reed may come as a revelation. Reed (1887-1920) is better known as the author of Ten Days That Shook the World, his eyewitness account of the Russian Revolution.
CONDITION: Largely unopened along the top edge, light edge wear, sunning to a corner of rear cover, closed tear of about 2 inches (45 mm) at the bottom of the spine where it meets the front cover. A Very Good or better copy of a fragile book. Item #2564
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Price: $250.00