This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 edition. Excerpt: ... To those who live and toil and lowly die, Who pass beyond and leave no lasting trace, To those from whom our queen Prosperity Has turned away her fair and fickle face; To those frail craft upon the restless Sea Of Human Life, who strike the rocks uncharted, Who loom, sad phantoms, near us, drearily, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 edition. Excerpt: ... To those who live and toil and lowly die, Who pass beyond and leave no lasting trace, To those from whom our queen Prosperity Has turned away her fair and fickle face; To those frail craft upon the restless Sea Of Human Life, who strike the rocks uncharted, Who loom, sad phantoms, near us, drearily, Storm-driven, rudderless, with timbers started; To those poor Casuals of the way-worn earth, The feckless wastage of our cunning scheme's, This book is dedicate, their hidden worth And beauty I have seen in vagrant drearnsi The things we touch, the things we dimly see, The stiff strange tapestries of human thought, The silken curtains of our fantasy Are with their sombre histories o'erwrought. And yet we know them not, our skill is vain to find The mute soul's agony, the visions of the blind. I ABOUT twenty years ago, late in January, snow was falling over North London. It fell for some hours continuously; "without intermission" the Evening Star said, whose sub-editor lived in the neighbourhood; and the said sub-editor sent his nephew, who was learning the business, to the British Museum, to look up heavy snowfalls from 1792 downwards. And by teatime the whole of North London, from the Manor House to High Barnet Church, from Hampstead Heath to Enfield Highway, was very white indeed. At a few minutes past four in the afternoon the triangular open common land, which is now the correct and asphalted park called Trinity Gardens, Wood Green, was deserted. Save where an open trench for pipes bisected it like a black knifegash, "all spotless lay the untrodden snow." In the Trinity Road Higher Grade Board School, which fronted this blanket of virginal purity, the Sixth, Seventh, and ex-Seventh Standards were receiving their weekly spoonful o
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Add this copy of Casuals of the Sea: the Voyage of a Soul to cart. $7.15, fair condition, Sold by Redux Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Wyoming, MI, UNITED STATES, published 1923 by Doubleday Page & Co.
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Fair. Fair hardcover. No DJ. PAGES CLEAN AND UNMARKED. Covers show edge wear with rubbing/light scuffing. Spine has tearing. Bumped corners. Front hinge cracked but binding intact. Previous owner's name on end paper.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!
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Very Good. Armed svcs. Ed. Very good in wrappers. Paperback is rubbed at spine ends and corners, cover and foredges soiled, pages browned. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.
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Add this copy of Casuals of the Sea, the Voyage of a Soul to cart. $40.25, Sold by John K. King Used & Rare Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Detroit, MI, UNITED STATES.
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Garden City 1923. 7x4.5", leather, 481pp, bookplate, covers a bit loose, small tear at back top hinge else ok. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY MCFEE IN 1924 "a trivial souvenir of the author's first visit to Detroit"
Add this copy of Casuals of the Sea: the Voyage of a Soul to cart. $50.00, very good condition, Sold by Abacus Bookshop rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Pittsford, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1916 by Martin Secker.
