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New York: The Macmillan Company, 1918. First US edition. Hardcover. Fine. 8vo. 98pp plus 6pp of ads. Green morocco spine, gilt titles, vellum tips. Cockerell green marbed paper sides, endpapers of Griffin handmade paper embedded with shamrocks. A fine copy. With the bookplate of Mathilde Nathan. Wade 121.

Ithaca: The Dragon Press, 1932. First edition. Stapled wraps. Good. 8vo. 44pp. Stapled wraps. Scarce second collection of poetry by this talented poet associated with the Harlem Renaissance, and published just a year before her death at a young age. Covers rubbed and soiled, spine neatly repaired, else a good copy, and with an inscription on a preliminary blank which we have been unable to decipher. One of the Dragon Series limited editions edited by Angel Flores. .

London: J. Robson, 1777. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine. 8vo. First edition. xv,196pp. Contemporary full calf. Spine in 6 compartments with raised bands; simple gilt rules separate the compartments. Red leather lettering label, gilt. Plain endpapers. Old, nearly invisible, repair to the spine; light wear to edges; else a near fine copy. Bookplate. Inscription on the front free endpaper reads: 'The Spirit of Athens / The Gifts of Sir Wm Young Bart / 1777 / Js. Payne' Whether the inscription is in the hand of the author or that of Mr Payne is unknown. ESTC T49760.