The golden journey to Samarkand / by James Elroy Flecker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Flecker, James Elroy, 1884-1915.

Contributor:

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

English Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Starrett, Vincent, 1886-1974 (autograph) (bookplate) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xi pages, 1 unnumbered page, 66 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm

Manufacture:

Letchworth : The Arden Press.

Place of Publication:

London : Max Goschen Ltd., 20 Great Russell St, W.C., 1913.

Notes:

With a half-title.

T.p. printed in red and black.

Contains "Preface" (p. vii-xi) signed by Flecker praising "a very simple theory of poetry which has for me a unique attraction--that of the French 'Parnasse'."

The verse beginning "We are Pilgrims, master; we shall go ..." and ending "Across that angry or that glimmering sea," (p. 7) is inscribed on the clock tower of the barracks of the British Army's 22nd Special Air Service regiment in Hereford and the NZAS monument at Rennie Lines in the Papakura Military Camp.

Publisher's advertisements: [1] p. at end.

Blue cloth cover with title and author lettered in gold on front.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has autograph, bookplate and ms. annotation of Vincent Starrett.

Cited in:

Cambridge bibliography, v. 4, p. 274

OCLC:

2707853