Chosen poems

Margaret Neilson Armstrong American
 Publisher Charles Scribners and Sons American
 Author Henry Van Dyke American

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Dark blue cloth with floral design in pale blue, orange and gold. Cloth binding and dust jacket signed by the designer: M.A. [i.e. Margaret Armstrong].

Frontispiece portrait of Van Dyke by Walter Appleton Clark with tissue guard and three additional illustrations. The last book in Armstrong's Van Dyke series, it is a collection of Van Dyke's poems chosen by his friends as their favorites. Armstrong created the cover of intertwined tulips for the first poem in the book: "When Tulips Bloom." -- vendor's description.

Photographs of binding from Watson Library Digital Collections https://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16028coll17/id/3991

Chosen poems, Margaret Neilson Armstrong (American, New York 1867–1944 New York)

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Chosen poems, Margaret Neilson Armstrong (American, New York 1867–1944 New York)
Chosen poems, Margaret Neilson Armstrong (American, New York 1867–1944 New York)

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