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Ballads and other Poems.

London: C. Kegan Paul & Co. … 1880.

8vo., pp. vi, 184, with 3 pp. advertisements at the end; uncut in the original green diaper cloth, slight cracking to front hinge, but a good copy; Signet Library bookplate.

£75

Approximately:
US $93  €87

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First edition. Wise, Tennyson 138; Tinker 2093.

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