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William Watson. The Hope Of The World And Other Poems. John Lane the Bodley Head, London, 1898.

Price: US$4.23 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: John Lane 1898 tidy clean sound hardback, minor bumping to corners and foxing to end papers - Sent from Scotland by Royal Mail, all international orders by PRIORITY AIR-MAIL. all books carefully packed. Size: 12mo

Seller: Book Bungalow, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

WATSON, WILLIAM. THE HOPE OF THE WORLD AND OTHER POEMS. John Lane The Bodley Head, London, 1898.

Price: US$5.56 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: ix + 83pp; T.e.g.; spotting to edges and eps; Spine split along external hinge crease though book still firmly intact; Previous owner's inscription to f.e.p. in neat but purple pencil as well as the dates of reading marked after each poem read also in light purple pencil; Still an attracive copy; Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall

Seller: Weathered Stone Books, Skreen, SLIGO, Ireland

William Watson. The Hope Of the World and Other Poems. John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1898.

Price: US$5.78 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Wear to covers and spine, corners bumped, covers grubby and stained, top and bottom of spine bumped, internally in good condition, pages crisp and clear but yellowing, a few small marks

Seller: Neo Books, Sidcup, KENT, United Kingdom

WATSON, WILLIAM. The Hope of the world and other poems. John Lane Bodley Head, 1898.

Price: US$6.24 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Leather binding by John Bumpus of Oxford on marbled boards minor scratching to cover and some foxing - ow Nice clean bright tight book 83 pages

Seller: Green Ink Booksellers, Hay-on-Wye, United Kingdom

William Watson. The Hope Of The World And Other Poems. John Lane the Bodley Head, 1898.

Price: US$10.15 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: 1898. No Edition Remarks. 83 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Gilt applied to top edge of text block, remaining sides are rough cut. Pages have mild tanning and foxing throughout, moderate at end-papers, paste-downs and text-block edges. Minor pencil marking to front free end-paper. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Sunning to spine. Gilt lettering is darkened. Book has a slight forward lean.

Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom

William Watson. The Hope of the World and Other Poems. John Lane, The Bodley Head, London and New York, 1898.

Price: US$13.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: The Hope of the World and Other Poems by William Watson. A collection of the poetry of William Watson (1858-1935), popular English poet of the time. Published by John Lane, The Bodley Head, London and New York, 1898. First edition. Good green cloth hardback with gilt to spine. Faded to brown at spine and edges. Some bumping and wear. Some uncut text pages as issued - those edges worn and discolored. Text otherwise clean and soundly bound, with gilt top edge. Weight approximately 166g unpacked. ix + half title + 83pp. Approx Dimensions: 181mm high x 120mm wide x 12mm deep.

Seller: Lanna Antique, Perth, United Kingdom

Watson, William. The Hope Of The World And Other Poems. John Lane at The Bodley Head, 1898.

Price: US$13.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Buckram, VG. x+83pp, top edge gilt, other edges uncut, spine a little faded, previous owner has copied out the preface to Watsons "Collected Poems" of 1898 on to pp vi, otherwise a nice bright copy. A collection of 24 poems. - Presumablely the hope for the new world was for the coming of the 20th century. 200 grams.

Seller: Eastleach Books, Newbury, BER, United Kingdom

Watson, William. The Hope of the World and Other Poems. John Lane; The Bodley Head, London and New York, 1898.

Price: US$19.50 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First Edition / First Print. Hardback copy in brown/green buckram with gold gilt lettering to spine, no dustjacket. 83pp. Untrimmed page edges. Not library copy, no inscriptions, 'University of Keele' embossed stamp to bottom title page. (53/2)

Seller: CURIO, Grimsby, N. E. Lincolnshire, United Kingdom

WATSON, William.. The Hope of the World and Other Poems. 2nd edn.. John Lane, The Bodley Head. 1898, 1898.

Price: US$22.10 + shipping

Description: Half title. Orig. green buckram, spine lettered in gilt; spine & board edges faded to brown. Ink inscriptions on leading f.e.p.: 'To Miss Anna Glanville with best wisehs M. Joel Oct. 1- 1902' and 'Geoffrey Tillotson, Balliol 22.x.26.' Includes the poems The Hope of the World, Estrangement, Ode in May, The Heights and the Deeps, A Fly-Leaf Poem, They and We, and others.

Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom

William Watson. The Hope of the World and Other Poems. John Lane The Bodley Head, London, 1898.

Price: US$31.86 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Faded olive green buckram/gilt. Top edges gilt. Dusty but tight and bright.

Seller: beckfarmbooks, HOLT, Norfolk, United Kingdom

William Watson. The Hope of the World and Other Poems. John Lane, The Bodley Head, London, 1898.

Price: US$32.49 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: A first edition of this poetical work by Sir William Watson. Watson (2 August 1858 – 13 August 1935) was an English poet, popular in his time for the celebratory content, and famous for the controversial political content, of his verse. Although very much on the traditionalist wing of English poetry, he courted controversy with a passionate attack on Turkey ('The Purple East' (1896)) and then later again with intensely anti-Boer War poems. Includes the poems 'The Unknown God', 'Ode in May' and 'A Courtezan - A Patron', amongst many others. In a full cloth binding with gilt labelling to spine. Externally, sound, faded but with very little shelfwear. Internally, firmly bound with just one instance of straining. Spotting to endpapers and textblock edge, otherwise bright and clean. Very Good

Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom

WATSON, William. The Hope of The World and Other Poems. John Lane, The Bodley Head, London, 1898.

Price: US$35.00 + shipping

Description: First edition. Hardcover. Small and slim collection of poetry. A very good plus copy in green buckram binding that has some slight soiling to the boards but internally a very clean copy.

Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.

WATSON William. The Hope of the World and Other Poems. John Lane/ The Bodley Head 1898 (one of a limited edition of 125 large paper copies), 1898.

Price: US$97.51 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: original buckram, spine chipped and darkened, a nice copy. presentation copy from the publisher inscribed front free endpaper: ‘Madame Grand/ with best wishes/ John Lane/ Jany 1. 98.’; Sarah Grand, novelist and feminist; John Lane, publisher; 83 pages; keywords: poetry;

Seller: Tiger books, Canterbury, United Kingdom

Watson, William. The hope of the world and other poems. John Lane; The Bodley Head, London and New York, 1898.

Price: US$187.50 + shipping

Description: First edition, small 8vo, pp. ix, [3], 83, [1]; full maroon crushed levant, gilt title on spine, gilt board edges and gilt-decorated dentelles, t.e.g.; fine in a sun toned paper chemise. Likely a copy owned by Alfred Eddy, an associate of Watson's, as we have another book of Watson's bound identically to this which includes a letter from Eddy about Watson.

Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.