Search Results: a fable for critics or better by james russell lowell

( New York ): G. P. Putnam's Sons, ( 1848 ). Second Edition, Enlarged. Hardcover. fair. 8vo, 80, 16 pages ( publisher's ads dated November, 1848 ), tan boards stained at bottom board, lacks spine, light waterstain at top margin, endpapers lack upper right corners, rubber-stamped "The Book Fair". Bibliographically complicated. This edition was extended with an inserted addtional six pages of "A Preliminary Note to the Second Edition". It is binding variant C, in tan boards - but not with the advertisement for Layard's NINEVAH (likely a later addition). [ BAL 13064 ].

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G.P. Putnam, 1848. Hardback. Tan paper.. Fair condition./No dust jacket.. First Edition, State D, with pages 63 and 64 correctly paged (BAL 13062). Front board partly detached. Spine mostly missing. Clippings tipped in to front endpaper. In custom-made sleeve and slipcase.

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[New York];: G. P. Putman,, 1848.. First edition, State D; pp. 63 and 64 correctly paginated.. publisher's rust cloth.. 1889 ink ownership notation; slight use to cloth.. 12mo,. BAL 13062.

[New York]: G.P. Putnam, Set forth October, the 21st day, in the year [18]48. First edition, second printing, small 8vo, pp. [1], v, 80; publisher's tan boards (soiled), paper label on spine, shelf wear, hinges weak; foxing. At head of title: "Reader! walk up at once (it will soon be too late) and buy at a perfectly ruinous rate..." Title page printed in red and black. One leaf of publisher's advertisements bound in front. BAL 13063.

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paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

New York: G.P. Putnam, 1948. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. 8vo with 80 pages. The book is in good condition with some shelfwear, bumping to the edges, and rubbing to the covers. The interior is mostly clean and tight with a small amount of foxing. The spine is brown with gold text.. 2nd Edition. Boards. Good/No DJ. 8vo. Hardcover.

Ticknor and Fields, Boston: 1856., 1856 pp. v, 80. Title page printed in red and black. Paste downs and end papers foxed. Slight browning. 8vo. Original full embossed purple cloth binding. Extremities worn. Second Edition. "A Fable for Critics is a book-length poem by American writer James Russell Lowell, first published anonymously in 1848. The poem made fun of well-known poets and critics of the time and brought notoriety to its author." **PRICE JUST REDUCED! HUMOR 8 0.0. Hardcover. Good.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

...By a Wonderful Quiz, who accompanies himself with a rub-a-dub-dub, full of spirit and grace, on the top of the tub. Set forth in October, the 21st day, in the year '48 by G. P. Putnam, Broadway.' First edition 1848, first issue of Lowell's 'Fable for Critic', a poetic and playful treatment of contemporary authors including Emerson, Carlyle, alcott, Bronson, Whittier, Dana, Hawthorne, Cooper. This copy has a contemporary handwritten key to the authors parodied written in pencil on rear end paper. Hardcover. Octavo, 78p. (p. 63 and 64 are correctly printed.), Putman one page advertisement appears as the frontis on the verso of the half title page, original brown paper coverd boards with later paper spibe. Title page printed in red and black ink. Good, one inch closed tear on front blank free end paper., boards lightly soiled and worn. Binding secure. Nice antique-looking copy of this unusual book. .

Cambridge: Published by George Nichols, 1848. First Edition. HB. Full brown leather, both titles in gilt with red panels on spine, 5 raised bands, 12mo, all edges of text block marbled, marbled endpapers. The Vision of Sir Launfal, with half title and title page, 27 pp., first edition. A Fable for Critics is a second edition, title page in red and black, published by G. P. Putnam, Broadway, 1848, (9), 7-80 pp. Owner's name on half-title page of Launfal, owner's initials top of title page of Fable for Critics, no other marks in book, binding tight. Covers show light edge wear, leather starting to crack top front joint. Book condition VG.