May wentworth ed (7 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Good.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 415pp., burgandy cloth, gilt stamping to spine. A rough copy, Good for reading or reference.

Condizione: Good. 8vo. 415 pp. Good, Brown Cloth, Mylar Jacket, edge wear, shelf wear, minor staining on back end papers possibly water or mold damage.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Covers are badly mottled, soiled and worn, good reading copy.

Octavo (18.5cm.); publisher's brown blind-ruled cloth, gilt-lettered spine, all edges gilt, brown glazed endpapers; viii,[9]-415pp.; text printed within double rule. Ex-Virginia Union Reform Club Library with their internal contemporary ex libris and small rubber stamp, boards a bit scuffed with corners bumped, faint dampstain along top margin of textblock; still, Very Good and sound overall. Publisher's cancel to title page with the updated address and date of 31 Kearny Street, 1869 (copyright 1866). COWAN & COWAN, p. 675: "This, and 'Outcroppings,' were the earliest California anthologies.".…

415 pp. Small 8vo, original brown gilt-lettered cloth, a.e.g. First edition. Cowan II, p. 675: This, and "Outcroppings," were the earliest California anthologies. An attractive copy with very minor wear; contemporary owner's name in pencil on front free endpaper and title page. The endpaper is dated in pencil June 8th, 1867, at Grass Valley, Nevada Co., Cal, and priced in the same hand at $3.50.…

First Edition. 8vo, pp. 415. Owner's name on blank. A little foxing, hinges near tender, o/w VG. Cowan p. 675. The second anthology of California verse, published shortly after the first, Outcroppings, and compiled as a rival to it, thus beginning the first literary feud in California. In late 1866, the publisher A. Roman issued Outcroppings, Being Selections of California Verse, edited anonymously by Bret Harte. This first anthology of California verse was immediately roundly criticized for its omissions (numerous California poets were not represented). Within a few months, Hubert H. Bancroft published this rival anthology edited by May Wentworth, which was far more substantial in the number of contributors and slighted no California poet - except for Bret Harte. Wentworth was one of the few serious women writers in San Francisco during the "Golden Era.". …