Wilkinson, Marguerite.

GOLDEN SONGS OF THE GOLDEN STATE; [Collection of poems about California selected by Wilkinson].

Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co., 1917. First edition. Includes 3 poems by Wilkinson who provides a 9-page foreword describing her selection process. Also includes poems by Bret Harte, Helen Hunt Jackson, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, George Sterling, Bayard Taylor, Edwin Markham, Robert Louis Stevenson, Joaquin Miller, Robinson Jeffers, Harriet Monroe, et al. (Refreshingly, it would appear that around 40% of the poems are by women.) 12mo green cloth boards stamped in gilt and yellow; 153 pages including index. Bright and near fine with just a touch of minor wear; in good, somewhat stained and edge-worn dust jacket with large chip from base of spine extending slightly to front and back panels but nonetheless bright and attractive. Scarce to rare in dust jacket.
Item #71938

Price: $150.00