Edited w t burney (3 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Gilt lettering front, top and spine. Previous owners name written inside on front free end paper.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. First edition. 8vo. Navy blue, cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering, and gilt vignette of sun emanating from a lighthouse beneath a sky of clouds. Top edge gilt, fore-edge and tail untrimmed. Moderate rubbing to extremities, and a bit of staining to boards. Both accession label and deaccession stamp to front pastedown. Front free endpapers shwo cartoons and poems tipped-in. Numbered copy (#154) Former library copy with usual markings (spine label, pocketPhoto frontis of poet. Edited with an introductory preface, by W.T. Burney 308 pp. Samuel Leonidas Simpson (1845-1900), was known as "the "Burns of Oregon,and " is widely regarded as nineteenth century Oregon's most beloved poet. A prolific writer whose poems and stories were published throughout the Pacific Northwest, Simpson is remembered today for only one poem, "Beautiful Willamette," written when he was twenty-two years old. At the height of his fame, however, Simpson's various talents were praised extensively by an adulating press. The following editorial from the Oregon State Journal, Eugene, is but one example: 'Some of our contemporaries express the opinion, in which we freely concur, that Sam L. Simpson is the most brilliant literary genius in Oregon.' (November 7, 1874).".…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. First Edition. Half tan morocco over tan marbled boards and eps, TEG, gilt decoration and lettering to spine. Presentation copy inscribed to the ffep in pencil : "To our friend M. L. Pipes from Vera Simpson and W. T. Burney. " Judge Martin L . PIpes was a prominent Oregon attorney, a justice on the Oregon Supreme Court, and a patron of literature. Pipes moved to Oregon around the same time as Simpson. Vera Simpson was a family member of Simpson, probably his daughter, Zilla Vera. Burney was a writer who wrote the preface. The frontis portrait is detached, laid in, else near fine condition.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 308 pages; Signed by Author.…