The Open Road: A Little Book for Wayfarers, compiled by EV Lucas, 42nd edition, 1937, Vintage Poetry Hardback

The Open Road: A Little Book for Wayfarers, compiled by EV Lucas, 42nd edition, 1937. Published by Methuen and Co. Ltd. London. Hardback, 370 pages.

This vintage poetry anthology includes poems from Wordsworth, Shelley, Whitman, Shakespeare, Byron, E. Nesbit, etc.
It is in good condition - the cover has some wear and slight discolouration. Inside the first few pages have a soft diagonal crease at the top corners and there are a couple of tiny dog-ears. Otherwise there is no writing or tearing.

Contents can be seen in the pics.

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18.5cm x 12.5cm x 2.5cm approx.

Foreword reads:
This little book aims at nothing but providing companionship on the road for city-dwellers who make holiday. It has no claims to completeness of any kind: It is just a garland of good or enkindling poetry and prose, fitted to urge folk into the open air, and, once there, to keep them glad they came - to slip easily from the pocket beneath a tree or among the heather, and provide lazy reading for the time of rest, with perhaps a phrase of two for the feet to step to and the mind to brood on when the rest is over.

Contents (Section titles):
Farewell to Winter and the Town
The Road
Spring and the Beauty of Earth
The Lover Sings
Sun and Cloud, and the Windy Hills
Companions
Birds, Blossom and Trees
Summer Sports and Pastimes
Refreshment and the Inn
Garden and Orchard
Music Beneath a Branch
The Sea and the River
Night and the Stars
A Little Company of Good Country People
A Handful of Philosophy
The Return

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