IN THE HARBOUR OF HOPE
first edition
1907 · Boston
by BLAKE, Mary Elizabeth
Boston: Little, Brown, 1907. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 120. Green cloth stamped in gilt. Owner's bookplate on pastedown, cover slightly worn at edges, o/w VG. Mary Elizabeth Blake was born in Ireland in 1840, and came to the United States as a child and lived in Boston's South End. She wrote several volumes of verse and various travel titles; this collection of poems was published posthumously (she died in Boston in 1907). (Inventory #: 30754)