Search Results: Poetry from The Reading Well Bookstore

New York: Macmillan. Very Good+ with no Dust Jacket. 1969. 2nd Printing. Paperback. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 176 pages; Light rubbing and edge wear. Pages are clean with light aging. Fully intact. Owner's name on title page. .

The Bobbs-Merrill Company. Very Good+ with no Dust Jacket. 1898. Not 1st Edition. Hardcover. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 196 pages; Red hardcovers with gold lettering on front and gold design and lettering on spine. Spine is straight, binding is tight. Pages are clean and are lightly browning. No ownership marks. No dust jacket. .

Concord Litho Co.. Fine. 1988. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Color Illustrations; 128 pages; No spine crease. Glossy wraps. Slight bumping and rubbing. Pages are clean, unmarked, tight, ivory. No ownership marks. .

New York: Bobbs-Merrill. Very Good+ with no Dust Jacket. 1909. 1st Edition. Hardcover. tall 8vo 9" - 10" tall; Color Illustrations; 352 pages; Burgandy embossed hardcovers with gold lettering and illustrated paste-down on front. Gold lettering on spine. Spine is straight, binding tight. Pages are clean with very light foxing noted. Illustratations remain bright and colorful. No ownership marks. No dust jacket. .

Chicago: S. C. Griggs. Very Good+ with no Dust Jacket. 1886. 7th Edition. Hardcover. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Vol. 1; 560 pages; Dark green cloth with gold lettering on spine. There is light edge wear. Binding is secure. Pages are lightly aging and lightly browning. Clean. 560 pages. .

London: Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd.. Very Good with no Dust Jacket. N.D.. Hardcover. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 280 pages; Red cloth with paste-down pictorial on front board. The spine has gold lettering. The is light foxing of the spine. The pictorial has rubbing and scuffing at the upper and lower edged. Gift inscription inscribed on front end page with date: 1931. The pages are lightly foxed but clearly legible. The back hinge is cracking. .

Pennsylvania: Dorrance & Co.. Fine in Very Good Dust Jacket. 1979. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 0805926844 . Signed by Author; Appears like new. Inscription by author. This collection indeed creates the easy, friendly atmosphere of a front porch on which ideas are spun out and experiences mulled over, where answers are not always found for our problems but at least we learn to speculate with a smile". Inscribed by author to a personal friend: "For Caroline, who suffered through numerous four-line verses of mine inviting her to coffee and doughnuts -- she usually finished the coffee. .

Salesian. Near Fine. 1989. Paperback. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Color Illustrations; 128 pages; No spine crease. Glossy wraps. Slight bumping and rubbing. Pages are clean, unmarked, tight, ivory. No ownership marks. .

Boston: Ginn & Co.. Near Fine with no Dust Jacket. 1898. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. 252 pages; Green cloth with black lettering. Spine is straight, binding tight. The pages are very lightly aged. 252 pages. .

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott. Very Good with no Dust Jacket. 1872. Hardcover. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 476 pages; Green cloth with gold lettering on spine. The top and bottom of spine have wear and the turn corners of boards have wear. The spine is straight, binding remains secure. The pages are lightly browning from age. There is previous owner's name inscribed on back end page with date June 4, 1916. 476 pages. .

Reilly & Lee Company. Very Good+ with no Dust Jacket. 1966. 3rd Printing. Hardcover. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Woodcuts; Red cloth hard covers with gold design on front and gold lettering on spine. Edges and corners are lightly rubbed. Spine is straight, binding tight. Pages are clean with light patina. No dust jacket. .

Chicago: E. P. Dutton. Very Good with no Dust Jacket. N.D.. Reprint. Hardcover. 24mo 5" - 6" tall; Color Illustrations; 81 pages; Hardcovers wtih colorful, illustrated paste-down on front. Gold lettering on front. Spine is straight, binding tight. Color illustrations are bright and remain colorful. The pages are clean, but do show some very light foxing in the white spaces. No ownership marks or other markings within text. No publication date present, estimated Circa 1910. .

Philadelphia: Dorrance. Fine in Very Good- Dust Jacket. 1972. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 0805916962 . 98 pages; Light green cloth hard covers. Gold lettering on spine. Spine straight. Binding tight pages clean and bright. Dust jacket with tear at lower front at spine edge. .

A. C. McClurg. Very Good+ with no Dust Jacket. 1901. Hardcover. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Series: 1610-1897; 391 pages; Dark blue hard covers with white lettering on spine. There is foxing on boards, causing intermittent spotting. Spine is straight, binding tight. Pages are clean with light aging. .

Ohio: Self Published. Near Fine. 1996. 1st Edition. Stapled. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 56 pages; Slight bumping and rubbing. Pages are clean, unmarked, tight, ivory. No ownership marks. Includes photocopy note from Brad Bostian describing these poems he found in his father's estate, and subsequently published. He stated "My father's life was a dramatic life, a life that contained joy and angush and risk, and also a sense of wonder at the beauty of all life, and music, and now, poetry as well." .

Chapel Hill, NC: Rand Mcnally. Good with no Dust Jacket. N.D.. Hardcover. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Green decorative cloth with black lines in design and gold design and lettering on front and repeated on spine. Boards have very light wear and very light soiling. The front hinge is cracked at the title page. The binding remains intact. The spine is straight. The pages are lightly aged. .

The Overlook Press. Good+ with no Dust Jacket. 1978. Not 1st Edition. Paperback. 0879510617 . 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Paperback covers with light rubbing to the edges and turns. Spine creasing present. Very light soiling of pages edges at turn corners. Fully intact. Gift inscription front end page. .

New York: R. Worthington. Very Good+ with no Dust Jacket. c 1886. Vol. 2; 814 pages; Red cloth wth decorative trims at top and bottom boards and spine. Spine is sun-faded. The pages are aged with browning. Spine is straight, and binding is tight. 814 pages. .

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston. Good. 1968. Paperback. 353 pages; Tight binding. Owner's name. Occasional annotations. Price sticker residue, average wear to illustrated cover. Tanned pages. Poems and essays of Matthew Arnold - set against background of the social and intellectual developments of Victorian England. Rinehart Edition. 353 pp. .

New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts. Good+. 1948. Hardcover. 0390575690 . 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 558 pages; Blue boards with gold lettering on front and spine. Boards are discolored, spine has a small hole in cloth, rubbing and edgewear. Annotations throughout text. .