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Carpenter, Fred Warner : Verses from Many Seas

Paul Elder and Company, San Francisco, CA, 1914

Original publisher's green boards. 4 1/2" x 8." Twenty-seven pages, complete. Gilt lettering on front cover. Top edge gilt. Pages and covers are very clean and intact. A collection of poems written by Fred Warner Carpenter (1873/1874-1957). Carpenter was secretary to President Taft from 1906-1909 and later served as Minister to Morocco in 1910 and 1912. These poems are inspired by his travels and include the following: "Proeme" [includes a poem to President Taft], "The Robert Louis Stevenson Memorial," "War," "From My Study," "San Francisco," "Memories," "Dolce Far Niente," "The Golden Gate Fishermen," "A Cabinet Minister's Vision," "The White House," "The Camel Caravan," "A Moorish Garden," "The Gardens of Youth," "The Christ Child," "A Seville Fountain," "The Seville Cathedral," "Venice," "The Ghost of the Palazzo Fontana, Venice," "Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris," "Malacanan Palace, Manila," "An Oriental Villa," "Bangkok, Siam," "Li Hung Chang," and "Life." Colophon in back: "Here ends some verses written from time to time by Fred Warner Carpenter as he wandered about the world, which he is glad to see done into a book by Paul Elder and Company, in the city of San Francisco; and the making of the book, the printing of it at the Tomoye Press, and then the binding was under the care and efficiency of John Bernhardt Swart. Published on the fifteenth day of the month of November in the year nineteen hundred and fourteen.". Book. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hardcover

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