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BODIE, Walford (1869 – 1939). The Bodie Book. London: Printed and Published by the Caxton Press, 1905. Publisher’s light blue pictorial cloth stamped in black and gilt. Halftone portrait frontispiece, black endpapers, A.E.G. Plates, facsimile of the author’s signature on dedication page. 8vo. 193, [5]pp. ads. Covers moderately rubbed, spine a bit dark. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED in ink on the FFEP by Bodie, with a short poem below his inscription (“Better loved ye canna be / will ye no com back again?”) and dated March 23, 1906. RARE with this autograph, and the first we have seen in this binding.