£12.00
Title: Salt Water Ballads
Author: John Masefield
Publisher: Elkin Matthews
Publication Date: 1918 (Sixth Edition)
Format: Hardback
Condition: Blue covers with bumping to corners and spine and spine fade. Rough cut pages which are clean with no ink or pencil marks, tanning slightly with age. Previous owners name to front.
Book measures 19.5cm x 13cm with 112 pages.
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This book, Masefield’s first, focuses on the lure of the sea and the wonder of the vessels that sail it, subjects that greatly delighted the poet; he had worked on a ship from age 13. It brought Masefield instant recognition. He immediately followed it with a number of other books of verse, and in 1930 would be named poet laureate. The “pungent, rhythmical poems of the sea” in these pages, however, especially “Sea-Fever” remain his best-known works.
| Weight | 0.75 kg |
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