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SAROJINI NAIDU PRESENTS BOOK TO WALTER DE LA MARE


Estimate: Rs 40,000-Rs 60,000 ( $625-$940 )


TITLE: The Broken Wing: Songs of Love, Death & Destiny 1915-1916
AUTHOR: Sarojini Naidu
PUBLISHER: William Heinemann / John Lane Company
PLACE: London / New York
YEAR: 1917
EDITION: First
BINDING: Original paper-covered boards withspine glued back. Spine has paper label carrying the book title
NO.OF PAGES: pp. xiv + 108
SIZE:
Height: 23 cm
Width: 15 cm
Depth: 1.8 cm

INDIA'S NIGHTINGALE TO ENGLISH POET WALTER DE LA MARE / FIRST EDITION WITH WALTER BOOKPLATE

Signed ink inscription on front flyleaf: "Walter de la Mare from Sarojini Naidu/ In deepest admiration for the ariel who sings from the Sunken Garden of Dreams/ Xmas 1919". With Walter de la Mare's bookplate carrying a woodcut pasted insidefront cover.

Walter de la Mare [1873-1956] was an eminent English poet and novelist.