A DEFENCE OF POETRY
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1904. Limited edition. Cloth. 1904 printing, Limited to 500 copies on hand-made paper. A Very Good copy. 8vo., 90 pp. Bound in white and brown cloth with titlke on spine and front board in gilt. Sondley Refernce Library copy, with their book plate and call numbers on the front board only. SIGNED by F. A. Sondley on the front end paper and dated 1918 in pencil. Very Good. Item #36614
F.A.Sondley: Forster Alexander Sondley, attorney and scholar, was born at Montrealla, his maternal grandfather's home in Alexander, a community ten miles north of Asheville. As an adult he most often referred to himself as F. A. Sondley. A lawyer. Historian, and collector of art, he is chiefly remembered for his personal library of approximately 30,000 volumes containing hundreds of rare works on southern and state history and on natural history. The city of Asheville acquired the library by bequest at his death, and parts of it still form the nucleus of the Sondley Reference Library in Asheville.
Price: $40.00