Poets of America.
by STEDMAN, Edmund Clarence
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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New York, New York, United States
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About This Item
Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin and Company; The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1885.. First Edition. 8°, publisher's navy blue cloth, gilt (slight wear), front hinge cracking. Slight browning and occasional spotting. Overall in good condition. Bookplate of L. Valera. (2 ll.), xviii pp., (1 l.), 516 pp., (4 ll. advts.). *** FIRST EDITION. Includes selections from William Cullen Bryant, John Greenleaf Whittier, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edgar Allan Poe, Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell, Walt Whitman, and Bayard Taylor. ***
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Details
- Bookseller
- Richard C. Ramer Old & Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23986
- Title
- Poets of America.
- Author
- STEDMAN, Edmund Clarence
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin and Company; The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1885.
- Keywords
- United States, American literature, poetry, poems, William Cullen Bryant, John Greenleaf Whittier, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edgar Allan Poe, Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell, Walt Whitman, Bayard Taylor
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