Dulce Domum: The Burden of the Song
by Taylor, Benj. F
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Martinsville, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Chicago, IL, U.S.A.: S. C. Griggs and Company, 1883. Edge and corner wear; lightly scuffed and scratched; corners are bumped and rubbed; head and tail of the spine are beginning to fray; some shelf wear; former owners inscription and a date are in ink on the second page; overall a nice used first edition! Very very rare and hard-to-find title! Decorative brown cloth with gilt and brown lettering and illustration on the front board and spine. Decorative endpapers. Gilt outer page edges. 159 very clean unmarked and uncreased historical and poetic pages nicely enhanced by black and white illustrations! Extremely scarce and out-of-print first edition! "On some long day of june take a terrestrial globe with all the equipments for measuring the days, the nights and the twilights; the route of the shadow and the sun; for catching Eveywhere in the fine web of lines and parallels. Find Alaska whence Campbell's doleful wolf has been raising its 'long howl' for a life-time. You are notlooking beyond the border where floats the Flag. You have not gone from home........." ----- from The Sun That Never Sets.. First Edition. Decorative Brown Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.
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- Bookseller
- Conover Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 041950
- Title
- Dulce Domum: The Burden of the Song
- Author
- Taylor, Benj. F
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- S. C. Griggs and Company
- Place of Publication
- Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1883
- Keywords
- POEMS POETRY POETIC WORKS AUTHORS
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
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Conover Books
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