The Man With the Hoe and Other Poems

New York: Doubleday, McClure, 1899. First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition, 1899, green cloth gilt, near fine, inscribed to 'my friend' Aage Nilsen on flyleaf, dated 1927. Nilsen, a dedicated collector of signed books, was in the habit of putting postage stamps near the inscription and getting them postmarked, thus he had these postmarked from Staten Island.… Read more about this item

New York: Doubleday & McClure Company, 1899. First Edition. green gilt-stamped cloth. Fair. John Everett Millais. Presentation Copy SIGNED by the Author: "In memory of a pleasant / night and a day under the / roof of / Rev. and Mrs W. R. Taylor. / Edwin Markham / Feb. 10. 1901," small 8vo, green cloth with blind-stamping and… Read more about this item

New York: Doubleday & Mcclure Company. Very Good. 1899. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Second State. Green ribbed cloth. 134 [4] pages. Beautiful frontispiece with full tissue guard. Laid paper; with rough cut edges. Bright title on cover and spine. Worn extremities and gutter; 2 small areas of cloth loss on the front board (additional photographs… Read more about this item

Signed by author. Very Good hardcover, no DJ. Brown cloth over boards, blind stamped titles on front cover, gilt stamped titles on spine. Clean, square covers and spine; slight fading of spine and very slightly on covers at joint; tightly bound; signed and dated (1935) on front free end paper; clean interior with very slight general age darkening; leaves remain… Read more about this item

New York: Doubleday & McClure Company, 1899. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Very good with extensive notations on rear endpapers, newspaper offsetting on pages 110-111, spine ends worn.

New York: Doubleday, McClure, 1899. First printing. Hardcover. Good. Later state with "milkless" on p. 35. Good copy, solidly bound but with general wear. A pinned note on flyleaf, addressed to Francis Whiting Halsey, the first editor of the New York Times Saturday Review, dated February 6, 1900 from Brooklyn: "Dear Mr. Halsey: I enclose a few lines… Read more about this item

New York: Doubleday & McClure Company, 1899. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. SIGNED 134pp. Octavo [20cm] Olive green cloth over boards with title stamped in white on front board. Blind stamp boarder. Deckle edges. Slight rubbing and bumping to extremities. Gift signature from the author on front free endsheet.

Doubleday, Page. Good. 1920. Hardcover. SIGNED by author on front endpaper. "Joy to you and yours! Edwin Markham, June, 1921". 133 pages. Some of the poems are: Wall of the Wandering Dead, The Elf Child, The Goblin Laugh, Imagination, To William Watson, Keat A-Dying; In Poppy Fields, These Songs will Perish, etc. First edtion was printed… Read more about this item

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company. Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1922. Hardcover. Staining to lower margin of page 15/16 (first leaf of title poem, The Man with the Hoe). Seen faintly on adjacent pages. Slight stain to lower edge of front blank. Owner's name and the date written on front free endpaper. ; Signed… Read more about this item

New York: Doubleday & McClure Company, 1899. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Very good or better with some wear to extremities, faint foxing, and offsetting on endpapers.

New York: Doubleday & McClure Company, 1899. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Green ribbed cloth stamped in gilt. Contemporary owner's gift inscription on blank preliminary page, modest edgewear, spine slightly cocked, very good.

New York: Doubleday & McClure Company, 1899. First edition, second state. Hardcover. 134pp. Duodecimo [20 cm] Light green cloth with white stamped title on front board. Very good. Light rubbing to corners of boards. Gentle sunning to backstrip. Inscribed by the author on the front free endsheet. With "milkless" on p. 35, line 6.

Gay and Bird, 1900. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1900. No Edition Remark. 134 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Moderate tanning, with light foxing and marking to pages. Cracks to guttering throughout, with exposed netting. Noticeable tanning to rough-cut text block edges. Moderate rub-marking and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers with inscriptions to front. Boards have moderate… Read more about this item

New York: Doubleday & McClure Co., 1900. First edition with the Howard Pyle illustrations. Hardcover. Very good overall. Edwin Markham [1852-1940] was an American poet, educator and poet laureate of Oregon from 1923-1931; considered by many to be an important voice in American poetry. Illustrations by famed illustrator Howard Pyle. The poem is said to be inspired by… Read more about this item

Doubleday & McClure, 1900. Hardcover. Very good/No jacket. Howard Pyle. First printing. Covers designed by Sarah Wyman Whitman. Shelfworn.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc, 1934. Cloth. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. 133pp. Poems by Edwin Markham, in later edition. This copy is inscribed and signed by poet on endpaper. Bound in tan cloth boards, title and author's name embossed on front cover, and gilt title on spine.… Read more about this item

New York: Doubleday & McClure Company, 1899. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition, second state. Octavo. 134pp. Very good with spine toned, wear at the edges and scrap on rear board by the spine.

Gay and Bird, 1900. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1900. No Edition Remark. 134 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Moderate tanning, with light foxing and marking to pages. Noticeable tanning to rough-cut text block edges. Cracking to front hinge, with exposed netting. Heavy tanning to free endpapers with inscriptions to front. Boards have moderate shelf wear, with… Read more about this item

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1931. Hardcover. Very Good. Later printing. Lacking the dustwrapper. Very good with corners lightly bumped. Light soiling to green cloth cover.

Doubleday Doran, 1932. First edition, first printing. A nice outing with its dust jacket! 1932 edition and fully signed by Markham and dated 1932 on the opening flyleaf. Very good or better boards in good dust jacket.