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The Message of the trees : an anthology of leaves and branches

Title
The Message of the trees : an anthology of leaves and branches / by Maud Cuney Hare ; with a foreword by William Stanley Braithwaite.
Publication
Boston : The Cornhill Company, [1918]

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Additional Authors
  • Cuney-Hare, Maud, 1874-1936
  • Braithwaite, William Stanley, 1878-1962.
  • Cornhill Publishing Company, publisher.
  • Seaver-Howland Press, printer.
Description
[2], xiv, 190, [2] p.; 24 cm.
Donor/Sponsor
Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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Genre/Form
  • Authors' presentation inscriptions (Provenance)
  • Provenance labels (Provenance)
Note
  • Illustrated lining-papers.
  • "Copyright, 1918, by The Cornhill Company."--verso of title page.
  • "Seaver-Howland Press 271 Franklin St. Boston."--p. [2] at end.
  • With a half-title.
  • "Index of first lines"--p. [187]-190.
Provenance (note)
  • inscribed: in ink on recto of first free endleaf "To Mr. Arthur Schomburg. 'Ye that scatter the seed of words, scorn not the sowing, nor the Master that sent ye out in barren fields.' Maud Cuney Hare. Boston, July 1922." ; with printed label on front pastedown: "F.C. Stechert Co., Inc. 126 East 28th St., New York." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.
Contents
The leafy world -- The meesage of the trees -- Trees -- From brown boughs breaking -- Talking branches and whispering leaves -- Far from the madding crowd -- The philosophy of leaves -- The patriarchs of time -- Incense of thought upon leafy naves -- Comfort and consolations -- The treasury of the year -- Bare ruin'd clothes.
Call Number
NAC (Hare, M. C. Message of the trees)
LCCN
19002697
OCLC
1477880
Title
The Message of the trees : an anthology of leaves and branches / by Maud Cuney Hare ; with a foreword by William Stanley Braithwaite.
Imprint
Boston : The Cornhill Company, [1918]
Provenance
Copy in Sc Rare 808.8-H (accession no. B594238) inscribed: in ink on recto of first free endleaf "To Mr. Arthur Schomburg. 'Ye that scatter the seed of words, scorn not the sowing, nor the Master that sent ye out in barren fields.' Maud Cuney Hare. Boston, July 1922." ; with printed label on front pastedown: "F.C. Stechert Co., Inc. 126 East 28th St., New York." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN
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Added Author
Cuney-Hare, Maud, 1874-1936, editor.
Braithwaite, William Stanley, 1878-1962.
Cornhill Publishing Company, publisher.
Seaver-Howland Press, printer.
Cuney-Hare, Maud, 1874-1936, inscriber.
Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.
F.C. Stechert Co., Inc.
Research Call Number
NAC (Hare, M. C. Message of the trees)
Sc Rare 808.8-H (Hare, M. C. Message of the trees)
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