The Serpent in the Wilderness by Masters, Edgar Lee - 1933

Sheldon Dick, 1933. Limited edition, 377 of 400 copies. Fine in original publisher's tissue dust jacket and new custom slipcase with label from original slipcase laid down.. Tan cloth spine over red boards in slipcase. Signed by author.

New York: Sheldon Dick, 1933 206 of 400 copies SIGNED by Edgar Lee Masters. The book and glassine jacket are in near fine condition; the slipcase/box is in fair condition. Size: 4to. Signed by Author. Limited Edition.. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine (glassine dj).

New York: Sheldon Dick, 1933. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to. 91 pp. Red paper boards backed in grey cloth with gilt titling to spine. Lacking original glassine jacket. Light soiling to boards and faint darkening to spine cloth. Light soiling to endpapers. Deckled bottom and fore edge. Red ink ownership stamp of noted illustrator Edward A. Wilson to ffep. Colophon states this is number 143 of 400 copies, signed in black ink by Edgar Lee Masters.

New York: Sheldon Dick, 1933. Hardcover. Good. First edition. This is number 372 of four hundred copies (without holograph manuscript). Quarto. Good only with dampstain on top half of front board, lacking the unprinted glassine dustwrapper and box. Pages clean and bright. Signed by the author on the limitation page.

New York:: Sheldon Dick,, [1933].. First edition; No. 274 of 400 copies, signed by Edgar Lee Masters.. original buckram-backed boards.. A near fine copy.. Folio,.

New York: Sheldon Dick, 1933. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. This is number 117 of four hundred copies (without holograph manuscript). Quarto. Near fine with endpapers foxed in a very good unprinted glassine dustwrapper with spine ends torn housed in a very good box with printed paper label laid on top, one corner is a bit worn. Signed by the author on the limitation page. Scarce in original box.

New York:: Sheldon Dick,, [1933].. No. 340 of 400 copies signed by Masters. . original linen-backed boards in publisher's opaque wrapper and publisher's box.. A fine copy in a fine wrapper. The box is worn and repaired with tape at the joints.. Folio,.

New York: Sheldon Dick, 1933. First Edition . Hardcover. VGFN/Fair. 4to No. 22 of 84 copies with holograph manuscript poem, signed by the author on the colophon page, out of an edition of 400. Red paper covered boards, tan cloth spine, with title gilt. Printed at the Marchbanks Press on deckle-edged Papier de Rives. Tipped in is a 21 line manuscript poem, in pencil, with 3 lines crossed out and one line added and with corrections, dated Nov-18-29. A little foxing on the endpapers and title page else Fine in the original glassine dust jacket with some chips and tears.

Sheldon Dick, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 91 pages. 8-1/4 by 11-1/2 inches. Poems by the author of the Spoon River Anthology. Masters won the Robert Frost Medal issued by the Poetry Society of America in 1942. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a very good publisher's original glassine dust jacket has three very short tears at the corners. In a very good original box with paper label on cover, and worn edges including two closed tears. Signed by the author on the limitation page. One of 84 copies published with a manuscript page. [JSP01].

New York, New York: Sheldon Dick. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 1933. First Edition: First Printing. Hard Cover. 91 pages: 8.25 x 11.5 in.: 2: Signed by Author: KB#010204: Contained in labeled book box. Box is in Very Good condition, with light rubbing at corners. Book is a Limited Numbered Edition (#317 of 400, without holograph manuscript), SIGNED BY AUTHOR (Edgar Lee Masters) on last page. Boards are bright red paper with light brown tweed cloth spine and gilt lettering on spine. Boards and pages are clean, unmarked, brightly colored, tightly bound and sharp cornered. Book is protected by original publisher's tissue dustjacket, which is in Very Good condition with only slightly worn/repaired corners. Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. The six long poems in this book constituted a miscellany of Master's thinking from various years and moods. One of the poems (Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and the King Cobra) particularly attracted favorable attention when the book was published. .