Ross john d compiler (4 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Hardcover. ORIGINAL 1898 PRINTING. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show light edge wear with rubbing/light scuffing. Binding is tight, hinges strong. Previous owner's name on end paper.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day.

Hardcover. Condizione: NEAR FINE-COLLECTIBLE. Condizione sovraccoperta: Poor. First Edition, First Printing. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Orange linen boards/Fine. DJ/Poor; intact w/edge & surface rubs, and loss to upper spine corner. An anthology of great poems for boys, 12 yrs & up, growing toward manhood by Gerald D. McDonald (1905 - 1970), the distinguished Chief of Special Collections for the New York Public Library. Selections of time-tested English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, and American verse eflecting special times in a boy's life. Poets of the past include Shakespeare, William Blake, Oliver Goldsmith, and Yeats; from the present are Dylan Thomas, Robert Frost, Ogden Nash, among others. 234 pgs w/line drawings. Poems are arranged in 9 sections: 1, Come & See; 2, Stand & Stare; 3, Fur, Fin, & Feather; 4, Live & Learn; 5, Wondering; 6, Hear My Tale; 7, O Pioneers; 8, Rise & Go; and 9, For You. From America Is Corn, Robert P. Tristram Coffin, pg 159 : "This sweetness built our beauty/These kernels made us great/The corn ear is the Great Seal/Of this American state/./America is flavor/Sharper than a thorn/Earth shooting up green fountains/America is corn!". Clare & John Ross (Illustrators) (illustratore).…

Hardcover. Condizione: VG-/G+. 1st Edition. This is the second book, containing Volumes 2-6, 1894-1897, bound together, around 545 pages in all. Scuffing and general wear to scarlet boards, spine sunned, title square on spine also sunned & with some paper loss, edges tanned, pages unevenly cut, early beginning s of cracked hinge at front ut binding remains firm, toning to end papers, owner's name top of toned ffep, a previous owner has lnserted some newspaper clipping from the 1920s which we've left between the pages. Grading commensurate with age of book. Dispatched from the UK same or next working day.. …

1st edition. Undying Words of Love and Appreciation by Admirers of the Poet. Pp.64/8 pages of ads for Masonic Publications by the publisher + tipped-in revised price list to final page, owner's bookplate (John Knaggs) featuring an owl with the motto "Quin Ultima Natural Perscrutari", spotting to closed page edges just touching internal margins, some pages uncut. Cream boards slightly rubbed. G+.…