Mid to late 19th century Cornish poetry. Five works. Charles...

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Mid to late 19th century Cornish poetry. Five works. Charles T. Bath. 'Poems and Prose,' printed thin card wraps detached, rust to staple bind, graphite notes to title page, vg text block, a very scarce work with a humerous preface '...I was always a backward child, a gift that I have no control over......I may say in conclusion I have never read a book in my life, not even a novel. This book is written from my own experience and observation', Camborne Printing and Stationary Company, [1909]; W. Herbert Thomas. 'The Socialist's Longing and Other Poems,' card backed canvas wraps with gilt tooled lettering, sun bleached and rubbed, pp.85, vg, F. Rodda, Penzance, 1893; 'Poems of Cornwall by Thirty Cornish Authors,' original cloth with gilt lettering, photographic frontispiece, short bio of each author, vg to fine, F. Rodda, Penzance, 1892; Rev R. S. Hawker. 'the Cornish Ballads and Other Poems,' original green cloth with bevelled edges and gilt decorations, rubbed and bumped, ex libris label, in joint splitting, vg text block, James Parker and Co, Oxford and London, 1869; Henry Sewell Stokes. 'The Voyage of Arundel,' signed by the author to title page, new edition, original cloth, later dj, vg, Longmans, Green, & co, London, 1884. (5) John Stengelhofen (1939-2020). Please see lot 1 for provenance.