AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY
The Golden Age
John Lane, 1896.
Sixth edition. 8vo. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author to publisher John Lane's future wife on the front free endpaper "Anna Eichberg King/ with friendly greetings from Kenneth Grahame/ 10th Septr 1897." Bound in publisher's yellow buckram cloth with dark blue lettering and pictorial decoration to the spine and boards, pages uncut. A near fine copy, with slight dustiness to the spine and hairline splits to hinges, housed in a custom made quarter brown morocco slipcase with red morocco title labels.
Swiss-born Boston author, Anna Eichberg King was the daughter of violinist and composer Julius Eichberg, and wife to publisher John Lane. She wrote a number of poems and short stories; her works include: Brown's Retreat, and Other Stories (1893); Kitwyck Stories (1895), American Wives and English Housekeeping (1905), as well as the lyrics for the national hymn "To Thee, O Country!" (1918).
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