New Poems
New York: John Lane Company, 1909. First Edition. Hardcover. 12mo; vii, 84pp plus 11pp of ads at rear. A very good to near fine copy in publisher's green cloth lettered in gold. Item #22340
Inscribed on ffep 'Myra Arthur 1909' and 'to Loring Andrews 1912' with the bookplate with the coat of arms used by President Chester A. Arthur with the motto “Impelle obstantia” to front pastedown. Small bookseller's ticket to rear pastedown at lower spine. Myra Fithian Arthur was the daughter-in-law of President Chester A. Arthur; Loring Andrews was her first son. Myra was the daughter of Joel Adams Fithian, prominent early Santa Barbara citizen (in 1894 he purchased three oceanfront parcels of land on Channel Drive and constructed a nine-hole golf course, clubhouse and tennis courts for what is now the Montecito Country Club; in 1895, he worked with local architect Thomas Nixon to design the State Street office building which came to be known as the Fithian Building; Fithian also purchased 3,000 acres of land in the foothills of Carpinteria, an area known as The Fithian Ranch (now Rancho Monte Alegre).
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