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GEMS OF POETRY. JUNE 1, 1880 - JUNE 28, 1881. JANUARY 1882- DECEMBER 1884. 2 VOLUMES.
New York John Dougall & Co. 1880 Hard Cover Very Good 4to
...VOLUME 1 - JUNE 1, 1880 - DEC 28, 1880. pgs. 1-248, no.'s 1-31 with a 2pg. Index., JANUARY 4,1881 - JUNE 28, 1881. pgs. 1-208, no.'s 1-26 with a 2pg. Index...VOLUME II JANUARY 1882- NOVEMBER 1882. no.' s 1-11, pgs. 1-176., JANUARY 1884- DECEMBER 1884. no.'s 1-12, pgs. 1-190 with a 2pg. Index. THIS VOLUME CONTAINS 12 OTHER MONTHLY PUBLICATIONS, POSSIBLY 1883, BUT NO DATE IS MENTIONED...ILLUSTRATED THROUGHOUT...Began as a weekly magazine in newspaper format but later published monthly...Includes biographical sketches of famous poets such as Isaac Watts, Geoffrey Chaucer, William Shakespeare, Sir Walter Scott, etc., as well as the poetry of Tennyson, Burns, Wordsworth, Cowper, Blake, etc...Inside Vol. 1 pasted down on endpapers are two greeting cards...Marbled boards with black cloth corners and spine, gilt lettering on spine(a bit rubbed)... Some shelfwear...UNUSUAL... 004864
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Arnold, Josias Lyndon. POEMS BY THE LATE JOSIAS LYNDON ARNOLD, ESQ; OF ST. JOHNSBURY (VERMONT) FORMERLY OF PROVIDENCE, AND A TUTOR IN RHODE ISLAND COLLEGE".
Providence. Carter and Wilkinson. 1797 First Edition. Full-Leather. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
...xii, 141pp... Postumously collected poems which include translations and imitations of Horace, short descriptive works on nature, and a poem by Freneau, "The Dying Indian", incorrectly ascribed to Arnold... Alden - 1523... Evans - 31753... Sabin - 2074... Wegelin - 7... Introduction and biography of Arnold by James Burrill, a Rhode Island Senator, 1817-1820...Gilt decorated red leather title label on spine...Original tree calf leather binding...Inscription in pencil on FFEP wirtten in old hand...Top hinge cracked but holding together...Spine ends chipped... 005235
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Bell, Henry Glasshouse :- MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS, A POEM.
London Raphael Tuck & Sons LTD. 1910 Hard Cover Very Good 8vo
...PRINTED AT THE FINE ART WORKS, LONDON... COLOR ILLUSTRATIONS ON FRONT AND BACK COVERS.... B/W ILLUSTRATIONS THROUGHOUT TEXT...." SONG OF THE BROOK" POEM BY T ENNYSON WRITTEN ON F.F.E.P. BY PREVIOUS OWNER...GILT ON ALL EDGES...No publication date but circa 1910...Covers worn...Chip on spine...Pencil marks on back cover. 000796
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Brown, Thomas:- INTERCEPTED LETTERS; OR, THE TWOPENNY POST - BAG. TO WHICH ARE ADDED, TRIFLES REPRINTED.
London Printed for J. Carr 1813 Hard Cover Very Good 12mo
...[xvi, 109pgs, + 3pgs. ads]....HANDSOME POLISHED CALFSKIN LEATHER TOOLED AND DECORATED IN GILT...Sixth Edition...SIX COMPARTMENTS....The author purchased a group of letters purloined from the mail and set them to rhyme and published in a kind of tabloid format. Unusual in that many of the names hinted at by the author through a few letters, then blanks, are herein pencilled in full, giving away the secrets of the intercepted letters... English political satire... TWO HANDSOME EARLY BOOKPLATES FRONT & BACK....FINE FOR AGE. 000357
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Butler, Samuel:- HUDIBRAS, A POEM, BY SAMUEL BUTLER, WITH NOTES, SELECTED FROM GREY AND OTHER AUTHORS; TO WHICH ARE PREFIXED, A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR, AND A PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE ON THE CIVIL WAR. IN TWO VOLUMES.
London W. Lewis 1819 Hard Cover Good 8vo
...Vol. I [xvii, 444pgs], Vol. II (494pgs]...3/4 LEATHER WITH CLOTH BOARDS... A new edition...EMBELLISHED WITH 11 HAND COLORED ENGRAVINGS BY CLARKE...MARBLED ENDPAPERS AND TEXTBLOCK...Scattered foxing... Corners bumped and leather chipped...Vol. II has been rebacked with original boards, new title and vol. label pasted down on spine .... 000387
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150.00 USD
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Chaucer, Geoffrey. CANTERBURY TALES.
Garden City & New York. Garden City Publishing Company 1934 Hard Cover Very Good 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall Kent, Rockwell.
... [xvi, 625pp]... Gold cloth binding, lettering stamped on front board, original paper title label on spine, engraved vignette illustration and bordered in gilt on front board, illustrated endpapers... SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY ILLUSTRATOR TO HARRY BEHN... Kent was a prominent American painter, printmaker, illustrator, and writer... De Luxe Edition... Clean interior... Though binding is tight, spine shows some wear and a light damp stain... No DJ... NOT EX-LIBRARY... 007540
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175.00 USD
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Child, Lydia Maria. OVER THE RIVER AND THROUGH THE WOOD.
New York. Coward, McCann & Geoghan, Inc. 1974 Hard Cover Near Fine. Very Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Turkle, Brinton.
... Unpaginated... Golden cloth binding, decoratively stamped, gilt lettering on spine, COLOR illustrated DJ... THIRD IMPRESSION... Heavily illustrated with B/W and COLOR pictures... DJ shows minor wear at corners, old tape repair made to tear on front... 007551
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Coleman, H. T. J. Elisabeth Kerr(Illustrator). RHYME FOR A PENNY.
Toronto. The MacMillan Co. Of Canada. 1929 Hard Cover Very Good Good + 8vo
....FIRST EDITION....ix, 49pp....ILLUSTRATED DJ....BROWN CLOTH BOARDS....ILLUSTRATED TITLE PAGE & FRONTIS....A book of Children's Poetry....Each Poem is DELIGHTFULLY ILLUSTRATED WITH B/W DWG....DJ is soiled/chipped/few tears....TEXT IS VERY CLEAN & BRIGHT & BINDING IS TIGHT! 003868
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Davis, Miss Rebecca I. GLEANINGS FROM MERRIMAC VALLEY.
Portland, Me. Hoyt, Fogg & Donham. 1881 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good - Fine 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall
... [128pp]... Dark green textured binding with decorative lettering in gilt, AEG, illustrated endpapers... Frontispiece illustrated with engraved portrait of Harriet Livermore... Text is clean and bright... Inscription in ink dated 1881 on FEP... 007473
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De Lormian, M. Baour. VEILLEES POETIQUES ET MORALES.
Paris Chez Brunot-Labbe. 1830 Full-Leather Fair 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall
... [238pp]... No publication date given, circa 1830's... Third Edition... ILLUSTRATED WITH B/W ENGRAVINGS... Text in French... Some soiling, brown spotting... Edgeworn... SCARCE... 007662
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Dodge, Mary Mapes. ALONG THE WAY.
New York. Charles Scribner's Sons. 1879 First Edition. Hard Cover. Good + 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
... [viii - 136pp]... Brown cloth pictorial boards, stamped... Dodge was an American children's writer and editor, best known for her novel 'Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates'... Some small B/W engravings illustrate the text... SCARCE... Boards soiled...Corners bumped and top spine end chipped... 006186
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Drake, Joseph Rodman CULPRIT FAY
New York & London G.P. Putnam. 1889 Full-Leather Very Good 16mo
...[137pgs.]...LITERARY GEMS...FRONTIS ENGRAVING...POETRY...Maroon leather binding with gilt lettering and design on front and back...Flowered endpapers...SCARCE... 006449
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25.00 USD
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Dwight, Timothy. CONQUEST OF CANAAN; A POEM, IN ELEVEN BOOKS.
Hartford. Elisha Babcock. 1785 Hard Cover Good Ex-Library 12mo
...304pp...FULL LEATHER...REBACKED WITH ORIGINAL BOARDS & ORIGINAL SPINE LABEL PASTED DOWN.... PUBLISHED IN HARTFORD AND DONATED TO THE HARTFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY. SHOWN AT THE CENTENNIAL IN 1876 AS INDICATED BY THE LOAN EXHIBITION CARD LAID INSIDE BOOK. CARD STATES THAT THIS WAS THE FIRST EPIC POEM PUBLISHED IN AMERICA...THE AUTHOR DWIGHT WAS A NOTED POLITICAL AND EDUCATIONAL LEADER AND PRESIDENT OF YALE IN 1795. HE AUTHORED NUMEROUS PUBLICATIONS...First & last few pages are toned, the rest of text is CLEAN.... No front free endpapers... AN INTERESTING AND RARE ITEM 000786
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175.00 USD
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Fairfield, Frances Story of Longfellow
Portland, Me. L.H. Nelson Company 1904 Soft Cover Very Good 8vo
...32pp...FIRST EDITION...ADDED PICTURE OF LONGFELLOW ON COVER...B/W ILLUSTRATIONS AS WELL AS PHOTOS IN TEXT...Slight sunning on cover and spine. 001808
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Falconer, William. SHIPWRECK, A POEM.
London. William Baynes. 1811 Hard Cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall Dodd, Robert.
...xxxviii, 152pp... Older rebinding in red cloth boards, gilt lettering on spine... Illustrated with 18 full page aquatint marine engravings by Robert Dodd and fold-out map showing "the ships path from Candia to Cape Colonna containing the neighbouring islands of the archipelago and the adjacent coast of Greece"... Collated with the earlier edition with additional notes and illustrations and a sketch of the author's life... Pages have toning and foxing, some offsetting of the plates... Ex-library with a Middlebury College bookplate on endpaper... 005397
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400.00 USD
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Field, Eugene. POEMS OF CHILDHOOD.
New York. Charles Scribner's Sons. 1922 Hard Cover Very Good 8vo Maxfield Parrish.
...x, 199pp...Reprint of 1904 Edition....PICTORIAL FRONT COVER...GILT Lettering on Spine..ILLUSTRATED Endpapers & Title Page...WONDERFUL CLEAR COLOR ILLUSTRATIONS by Maxfield Parrish....Inscription on FFEP..Text is CLEAN & Binding is TIGHT.... 006116
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