13. BATES, Katherine Lee. America the Beautiful and other Poems. NY: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, [1911]. 8vo. Publisher’s green cloth, upper cover stamped and lettered in gilt, t.e.g., in custom green morocco backed clamshell box. Condition: minor darkening to the spine, minor wear to the binding. Provenance: Breckie Lacy (bookplate on verso of the front free endpaper). first edition in book form with signed poem. -- A 1-page printed version of the poem signed and inscribed by bates, tipped to the front free endpaper of the above. Inscribed to Professor A. H. Tolman. [N.p.: c.1925]. [With:] A 1-page printing of the music set to the poem by Will C. MacFarlane, tipped to the front pastedown. [N.p.: 1913].
est. $1500 – $2000