Price: NZ$567.00
Quantity: 1 available
Book Condition: Very Good with No dust jacket as issued
Rusted staples have been removed, leaving rust stains in the area around the staples. ; (26), [2 (blank)] pages. Printed brown wrappers. Page dimensions: 125 x 100mm. New Zealand poet. "And there will be flowers as fine to pull, / And the rain will be as beautiful - / But not for me." - from the poem "After Death". "The Beggar was the author's "first true publication", an edition of 1,000 copies. (Mason's preceding book "In the Manner of Men" was an edition of 3 copies only, handwritten and handbound.) [References: Bagnall M1275; Robinson & Wattie "Oxford Companion to NZ Literature", p. 306 - "[. . .] so disappointed by the lack of interest locally was the young poet that he is supposed to have dumped a bundle of 200 copies in the Waitemata Harbour."]
Title: The Beggar
Categories: Other,
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Auckland, Whitcombe & Tombs: [1924]
Binding: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good with No dust jacket as issued
Seller ID: 22026
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