Thanatopsis.
by CAHOON, Herbert
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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LONDON, United Kingdom
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About This Item
The Tiger's Eye, New York., 1949. First edition. Octavo. 26 pages. One of 200 numbered copies signed by the author. Cloth-backed marbled paper boards. Printed at the Banyan Press. Poems.Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to the noted American bibliophile Frederick Adams whose Rockwell Kent bookplate is on the front pastedown: "To Fred Adams with all good wishes - this souvenir of a Curator's 'past' - Herb Cahoon 3 May 1954". Cahoon was curator at the Pierpoint Morgan Library, while Adams was its director. He was also co-bibliographer of James Joyce. Laid in are a Christmas card to Adams with a photograph of the author in a top hat, and a folded poem card.Fine.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Peter Ellis bookseller (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- CAHOONHE021494
- Title
- Thanatopsis.
- Author
- CAHOON, Herbert
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Tiger's Eye, New York.
- Date Published
- 1949
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Peter Ellis bookseller
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LONDON
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- First Edition
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- Octavo
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- Inscribed
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- Bookplate
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- New
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- Marbled Paper
- Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...