Search Results: Poetry from Good Old Books

Wheaton: R. Blanchard, 1882 Engraving photograph as frontispiece by Brady, 141 pages, early edition, a poem about Lincoln, minor stains to cloth, stamp of previous owner on front end page, binding tight, flowery end pages.

New York: Alliance Publishing Company, 1901 36 pages, a mystic poems. The backstrip is a bit subtly stained with light wear.

Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1951 157 pages, light staining to boards.

Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1887 232 pages, blue cloth, several stains on boards, barely starting at rear groove, top corner bumped.

Indianapolis: Bowen Merrill Co., 1888 160 pages, previous owner's signature on front free end page, Fourth Thousand stated on title page. Very small stain on backstrip.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1899 79 with 1 page list of books by the author. The boards are surprising clean with only the slightest soiling. The book was obviously originally uncut. This means that the bookmakers forgot to slit the pages leaving it to the buyer of the book, and quite often, done badly. This is the case for two of the pages although the text is still readable and the pages whole with tearsin the margin outside of the text. One page is still uncut. With these notes, the item is quite scarce; the buyer would still enjoys the solid binding, clean pages and quite clean boards.

Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1930 273 pages, three page list of publications from the publisher. Mildly foxed, a few pencil marks.

New York: Unicorn Publishing Co., 1927 236 pages, poetry by various poets.

New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1925 Decorative boards, 73 pages, board showing along edges, and corners. Still a nice attractive book!

Chicago: Religio-philosophical Publishing House, 1889 272 page, green boards, beveled edges, hinges starting but binding is holding tight.

Cedarburg, Wisconsin: MMYAC, 1989 A collection of essays, stories & poems created at Metropolitan Milwaukee's Young Authors Conference Milwaukee Art Museum December 5, 1988. ..This book contains the writings of 202 students, ranging from 3rd- 12th grade. It also includes the works of 23 teachers who guided the young writers through the writing process in various choice locations around the museum, The authors brought a potpourri of ethnic and cultural backgrounds.." John Hallagan Conference Coordinator

New York & London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1921 119 pages, interesting paper label adhered to top of cloth backstrip covering all but the gutter, slightly discolored, very slightly bumped.

Minden: J. C. C. Bruns' Verlag, 1901 203 pages, very nice, Rudolph Steiner writes the introduction.

Australia: Ian Drakeford, 1989 94 pages, has two nice oriental stamps and states: Australia, '90 on front free end page... could that be the author's stamp? Not sure, but this book is rather scarce, and in nice condition. Great colorful illustrations.

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd., 1903 125 pages, This edition with hand coloured illustrations is limited to 250 copies of which this is No. 14. Scarce in any condition, the book is bound in board and the backstrip has neatly broken off.

New York: Barse & Hopkins, 1909 137 pages, full embossed brown leather, light wear to leather.

Kodie Press Book, 2004 61 pages, poetry.

Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, 1885 Unpaginated, 20 illustrations by Frederic B. Schell, very minor rubbing to cloth o/w n/f

London: J. Roach, 1794 Consists of parts 13, 15, 17 and 24 plus an index for the authors in all six volumes. Front board disbound, a few pencil notes.

Milwaukee: John Galt Productions 28 pages for Beginnings II, and 21 pages for Beginnings III. The magazine have advertising from Milwaukee throughout (poetry interspersed)