Lingua: Inglese
Editore: Grolier Enterprises Corp., 1963
Da: Orphans Treasure Box, Champaign, IL, U.S.A.
hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Ships quickly. Almost like new. Minimal shelf/reading wear. Orphans Treasure Box sells books to raise money for orphans and vulnerable kids.
Editore: Bookcraft
Da: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.
Editore: Bookcraft
Da: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.
Editore: Bookcraft
Da: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.
Editore: Grolier Enterprises Corp.
Da: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.
Editore: Grolier Enterprises Corp.
Da: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.
Editore: 0
Da: Bradley Ross Books, Auburn, CA, U.S.A.
Rivista / Giornale Prima edizione
Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. Original complete pulp in very good condition. Crease to corner. 6 The Big Hit William F. Schwartz nv; baseball. 18 How's Your Timing? John Winters Fleming qz 19 Fast Starter Zachary Strong ss; tennis. 27 Time Out! Robert A. Madle cl 30 Yellow for Danger Alfred Coppel ss; auto racing. 37 In Relief from Yesterday Mel Colton ss; baseball. 44 The Saints Go Stumbling On Jack Ritchie ss; football. 54 Dope from the Dugout Wilcey Earle cl 57 Use Your Head! Mat Rand ss; boxing. 66 The Dead Heat Payoff Harold Gluck ar 70 Last Ditch Series E. Lee Allen ss; baseball. 78 Farewell Performance Wadsworth Nealey ss; baseball. Magazine.
Editore: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 1931
Da: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling and rubbing to the spine bands and panel edges. Hinges starting slightly. Remains well-preserved overall. Series; Publications of the University of Manchester economic history series ; no. 7. Physical description; xii, 539 pages illustrations (maps) diagrams 22 cm. Subjects; Cotton manufacture England Lancashire History. Textile industry England Lancashire History. Cotton trade Great Britain History. Cotton machinery. Industries Great Britain History. Lancashire (England) Economic conditions 17th century. Lancashire (England) Economic conditions 18th century. 1 Kg.
Editore: D Lothrop Company, Publishers [1890], Boston, 1890
Da: Evening Star Books, ABAA/ILAB, Madison, WI, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione: Good+. Reprint. Obling 8vo. Unpaginated. Dark gold cloth over beveled boards, gilt and brown decorations and brown lettering on the front board, gilt lettering on the spine; all edges gilt. Illustrated throughout with black and white engravings, drawings, and other images, some full-page, some in-text. With poems by Longfellow, Bryant, Tennyson, Whittier, Lowell, Bryant, Browning, and others. A compendium of poems to celebrate each month of the year, with each month illustrated by the decorations throughout. Traces of wear to the corners and spine ends, the front hinge subtly cracked.
Lingua: Inglese
Editore: Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1965
Da: Joy Norfolk, Deez Books, IPSWICH, Regno Unito
EUR 28,41
Quantità: 1 disponibili
Aggiungi al carrelloHardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. 539 pages. A history of the cotton trade and industrial development in north west England. In clean and sound condition. This is the 1965 reprint of a book first published in 1931. No dust wrapper. All orders processed promptly and shipped from the UK. Non-UK customers please only select the expedited / fast shipping service at check out. 5.5"x9".
Editore: New York: John D. Williams, [1882]., 1882
Da: David Hallinan, Bookseller, Columbus, MS, U.S.A.
SINGLE VOLUME OF A LARGER SET (OCLC indicates the set as issued as nine volumes issued in five books with this being the third book in the set). Two separately paged sections - pagination as i-viii, 1-439, [1], 1-355. Hardcover: H 19.5cm x L 13.75cm. Half leather binding; leather spine and dark marbled paper over boards with leather corners; surface abrasion to leather spine with shallow wear at ends; slight splitting at upper joints; spine's title labels intact and retains bright gilt lettering; board corners worn. Gilt top edge; deckle fore-edge and bottom edge. Marbled endpapers predominately in red. Two-line ink ownership inscription "Ellen S. Washburn | October 30th 1886" on front flyleaf. A few spots of minor soiling and foxing to interior pages which otherwise remain quite clean. Binding is firm. First section (paged as i-viii, 1-439) is THE POEMS OF GOETHE TRANSLATED IN THE ORIGINAL METRES, BY E.A. BOWRING, W.E. AYTOUN, THEODORE MARTIN, G.H. LEWES, EDWARD CHAWNER, PROF. LEOPOLD NOA; THOMAS CARLYLE, J.S. DWIGHT; A.J.W. MORRISON, H.W. LONGFELLOW, CHAS. J. SPRAGUE, REV. HENRY DALE, M.A. Second section (paged as 1-355) is THE DRAMATIC WORKS OF GOETHE INCLUDING IPHIGENIA IN TAURUS, TORQUATO TASSO, GOETZ VON BERLICHNGEN, AND THE FELLOW-CULPRITS. TRANSLATED BY SIR WALTER SCOTT, E.A. BOWRING, AND MISS ANNA SWANWICK.
Editore: Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1964
Da: Alexander's Books, Royal Leamington Spa, Regno Unito
Prima edizione
EUR 23,68
Quantità: 1 disponibili
Aggiungi al carrelloHardcover. Condizione: Good+. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, second printing. Large octavo hardback. xii + 361 pp. Illustrated Good + condition in Near Very Good price-clipped dust jacket. Probably ex-university library copy - label removed from front end paper and stamps removed from title page.
Editore: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 1931
Da: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Irlanda
Prima edizione
EUR 21,95
Quantità: 1 disponibili
Aggiungi al carrelloFirst Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling and rubbing to the spine bands and panel edges. Hinges starting slightly. Remains well-preserved overall. Series; Publications of the University of Manchester economic history series ; no. 7. Physical description; xii, 539 pages illustrations (maps) diagrams 22 cm. Subjects; Cotton manufacture England Lancashire History. Textile industry England Lancashire History. Cotton trade Great Britain History. Cotton machinery. Industries Great Britain History. Lancashire (England) Economic conditions 17th century. Lancashire (England) Economic conditions 18th century. 1 Kg.
Editore: Cuneo Press, Chicago, 1943
Da: Bibliodisia Books, IOBA, MWABA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Membro dell'associazione: MWABA
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Randolph Caldecott, A.J. Gaskin (illustratore). First Edition. LIMITED TO 650 COPIES. Original green gilt designer cloth. Printed on linweave text paper. A fine, clean, unmarked copy.
Editore: Cuneo Press, Chicago, 1943
Da: Bibliodisia Books, IOBA, MWABA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Membro dell'associazione: MWABA
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Randolph Caldecott, A.J. Gaskin (illustratore). First Edition. Very good+. Printed on quality handmade paper with rough edges. A beautiful edition. Includes Dickens' seldom-seen "What Christmas is as We Grow Older." Binding is cloth boards.
Lingua: Inglese
Editore: Rizzoli International Publications, New York, 1997, 1997
ISBN 10: 0847819582 ISBN 13: 9780847819584
Da: Joseph Valles - Books, Stockbridge, GA, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. x, 358 p. : ill. ; 27 cm. ; LCCN 95050472 ; LC Z2014.P7 B39 1997 ; ISBN 9780847819584, 0847819582 ; OCLC 33818867 ; black and tan cloth in photographic dustjacket ; The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture ; Contents: Foreword / by Paul LeClerc -- Introduction / by Rodney Phillips -- The magical value of manuscripts / Dana Gioia -- Poems and papers. John Donne -- Alexander Pope -- William Blake -- Robert Burns -- William Wordsworth -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Leigh Hunt -- George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron -- Percy Bysshe Shelley -- John Keats -- Emily Bronte? -- William Cullen Bryant -- Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Henry David Thoreau -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Oliver Wendell Holmes -- James Russell Lowell -- Walt Whitman -- Emily Dickinson -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- Alfred Lord Tennyson -- William Makepeace Thackeray -- Lewis Carroll -- Robert Louis Stevenson -- Rudyard Kipling -- Thomas Hardy -- Charlotte Mew -- Hilaire Belloc -- Oscar Wilde -- Ernest Dowson -- William Butler Yeats -- James Stephens -- Robert Frost -- Edward Thomas -- Siegfried Sassoon -- Rupert Brooke -- Issac Rosenberg -- Humbert Wolfe -- Anna Wickham -- D.H. Lawrence -- Robert Graves -- Elinor Wylie -- Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Robinson Jeffers -- William Faulkner -- Wallace Stevens -- William Carlos Williams -- Ezra Pound -- T.S. Eliot -- Marianne Moore -- E.E. Cummings -- Vladimir Nabokov -- W.H. Auden -- Louise Bogan -- Kay Boyle -- Lorine Niedecker -- Louis Zukofsky -- Charles Olson -- Stanley Kunitz -- Jean Garrigue -- May Sarton -- Muriel Rukeyser -- Delmore Schwartz -- Dylan Thomas -- Randall Jarrell -- John Berryman -- Robert Lowell -- Elizabeth Bishop -- Howard Moss -- Richard Wilbur -- Jack Kerouac -- Allen Ginsberg -- Gary Snyder -- Robert Duncan -- Denise Levertov -- Robert Creeley -- James Schuyler -- Frank O'Hara -- Kenneth Koch -- Ted Berrigan -- Ron Padgett -- Anne Waldman -- Donald Justice -- Samuel Menashe -- James Merrill -- Amy Clampitt -- James Wright -- W.S. Merwin -- Anne Sexton -- Sylvia Plath -- Philip Levine -- Jean Valentine -- Adrienne Rich -- Imamu Amiri Baraka -- Mark Strand -- Louise Glu?ck -- Charles Simic -- Ai -- Dana Gioia -- Julia Alvarez -- The Prado of poetry : a history of the Berg Collection / Dana Gioia -- Suggestions for further reading -- Checklist of illustrations/permissions -- Acknowledgments -- Index ; Based on an enormously successful exhibition at The New York Public Library, The Hand of the Poet draws the reader into the real world of the poet - ink spots, tobacco stains, and all - by presenting a wide range of working drafts, letters, diary entries, photographs, and memorabilia. One hundred writers from the seventeenth century to the present day are represented. Biographies and portraits of each poet - alongside manuscripts of such legendary works as Yeats's "The Wild Swans at Coole" and W.H. Auden's "Stop All the Clocks"--Make up a mosaic that offers powerful and often surprising revelations of the person behind the poem ; FINE/FINE. Book.
Lingua: Inglese
Editore: Beechcliff Books, Annapolis, Md., 1985, 1985
ISBN 10: 0960893016 ISBN 13: 9780960893010
Da: Joseph Valles - Books, Stockbridge, GA, U.S.A.
Soft cover. Condizione: Good. 144 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm ; ISBN 9780960893010, 0960893016 OCLC 12763897 LCCN 85071412 LC QC373.K3 B35 1985 Dewey 688.72 ; color photographic stiff paper wrappers ; Contents: Once upon a scope -- New Images Emerge -- Related Facets and Inner Reflections -- Shops and Galleries Featuring Kaleidoscopes -- Brewster Patents and Excerpts from Bush Patents ; Kaleidoscope makers profiled: Doug Johnson, Carolyn Bennett, Peach Reynolds, Craig Musser, Bill O'Connor, Susan Stover, Peg Comeau, Dennis Comeau, Janice Chesnick, Sheryl Koch, Irene Ecuyer, Bill Ecuyer, Carrie Souza, Kirk Webber, Carmen Colley, Stephen Colley, Tom proctor, Corki Weeks, Dee Potter, Sue Ross, Erik Van Cort, Kate Van Cort, John Culver, Tina Stasi, Jeff Stasi, Charles Karadimos, Annie greenberg, Craig Huber, David Kalish, Marilyn Endress, Joe Kerby, Tim grannis, Jack Lazarowski, Ken Kosage, Cheryl Kosage, robert Moorehead, Stella Moorehead, Lesley Wadsworth, Willie Stevenson, Alice Stevenson, Dominique Stora, Gary Newlin, Howard Roe, Alfred Brickel, Marshall Yeager, Walter Reike, Kenneth Kaufman, Irene Holler, Ray Howlett, Robert Stephen, Mary Golden, Brian Tompkins, Mary Ann Saber, Helmut Coral, and Charlene Coral ; business card of La Belle Epoque, The Perfume of New Orleans, The Jackson Brewery, Babs Ryan and Joy Gowland stapled to inside front cover ; several plates of full-colored photographs of various and unique kaleidoscopes ; rare details on several glass arrtists around the country ; G. Book.
Full-Leather. Condizione: Good +. No Jacket. John A. Hows (illustratore). (1864), 96pp (pgs are only printed & numbered on one side), illus., gilt decoration to cover & spine, lettering to spine, aeg, marbled eps, raised bands to spine, wear to corners, slight shelfwear to cover, front cover has separated, front inner hinge is starting & this has been badly repaired with tape to fep, no dj, a few smudges throughout, but generally clean.
Editore: Manchester University Press, 1965
Da: Dreadnought Books, Bristol, Regno Unito
EUR 35,52
Quantità: 1 disponibili
Aggiungi al carrelloHardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. Reprint. Size: 8vo 7 3/4 - 9 3/4". xii + 539pp. Binding firm, spine cocked. Dust Jacket marked and chipped with one large tear. Previous owner's inscription in ink. Edges slightly marked. Corners slightly bumped. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Engineering, Industrial, Trade; England; 17th & 18th century; Genealogy & Local History. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 58812.
Editore: H.C. Foster, 1859
Da: Yesterday's Muse, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Webster, NY, U.S.A.
Full-Leather. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Boards rubbed, corners exposed, ink gift note from husband to wife dated 1859 on front endpaper. Full leather, gilt titles and decorations with elaborate green and gold oval labels on front and rear board, all edges gilt. A collection of poems by numerous authors, illustrated with engraved frontispiece and plates.
Editore: Cassell & Company Limited, New York, 1889
Da: Long Brothers Fine & Rare Books, ABAA, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Wedworth Wadsworth (illustratore). Oblong Folio. Pp. [30]. Textured gold half cloth bound, color illustrated paper covered boards. Text in two calligraphic fonts printed black, illustrations printed black and beige. Heavy paper printed recto only. Color embossed presentation card laid in, inscribed "With kind Christmas regards." Corners bumped and rubbed. Wadsworth was a landscape watercolorist and illustrator based in Brooklyn, NY.
Editore: Manchester University Press, 1931
Da: Antiquariat Herold, Berlin, Germania
EUR 34,00
Quantità: 1 disponibili
Aggiungi al carrellofester Einband. . Leinen.dunkelrot, 539 Seiten, Kl4°. * leichte Gebrauchsspuren, ansonsten guter Zustand (K30).
Editore: Cassell, New York, 1889
Da: John M. Gram, Port Huron, MI, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Wadsworth, Wedworth (illustratore). 1st Edition. edge wear to boards, staining and foxing to boards, former owner's name, some foxing to end papers, moderate age discoloration to internals, otherwise clean and sound, large oblong gold cloth backed illustrated papered boards, nice lithographic illustrations, not paginated, 10 by 14 inches.
EUR 53,28
Quantità: 1 disponibili
Aggiungi al carrelloCloth. Condizione: Good Only. C.W. Cope, George H. Thomas, Edward Duncan, Birket Foster, Harrison Weir, William Harvey, George Dodgson and A. Solomon (illustratore). First edition. The first edition of a collection of much-loved ballads from celebrated poets, brought to life by beautiful colour illustrations. The delightful first edition of A Book of Favourite Modern Ballads: Choice Pictures and Choice Poems by various celebrated poets including William Wordsworth, Mary Howitt and Alfred Lord Tennyson. Published by Ward, Lock, and Tyler in 1865.In the publisher's red decorative cloth, with a frontispiece of The Old Green Lane. Contains all twenty-three beautiful colour illustrations, all printed and engraved by Edmund Evans. Collated complete.This charming collection of ballads is the product of brilliant collaboration between the artists and Edmund Evans, as these celebrated poems are masterfully brought to life with beautiful illustrations. In the publisher's red decorative cloth. Externally, very smart. Minor bumping to head and tail of the spine, and the occasional small sign of rubbing to boards. End papers are bright and clean. Internally, a number of loose leaves, including pp.1-4, 19-20, 43-44, 49-50 and 57-60. Signs of wear to hinges on other leaves. Pages are generally bright and clean, with the odd spot to the occasional leaf leaves pp.2-3 and pp.42-43, heavier spotting to leaves pp.4-5. A faint large mark to center of p.65. Good Only. book.
Editore: The Gresham Publishing Company, London, 1905
EUR 59,20
Quantità: 1 disponibili
Aggiungi al carrelloCloth. Condizione: Very Good. None (illustratore). A smart collection of seven volumes of poetry from The Gresham Publishing Company, with the original Talwin Morris binding. Seven volumes. A selection of poems and verses from the works of important writers as collected by The Gresham Publishing Company, with a portrait frontispiece to each volume. In the original cloth binding designed by Talwin Morris, a prolific British book designer and decorative artist working in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, particularly known for his Glasgow Style furniture, metalwork and book designs. This set contains: Selections from the Poems of Matthew Arnold. Written by Matthew Arnold, an English poet and cultural critic. With titles such as The Forsaken Merman, Saint Brandan, and The New Sirens. Selections from the Poems of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, an English poet of the Victorian era. With titles such as The Sleep, A Sea-Side Walk, and My Doves. Selections from the Poems of Robert Burns. Written by Robert Burns, a Scottish poet and lyricist. With titles such as Up in the Morning Early, My Love She's but a Lassie Yet, and My Ain Kind Dearie. Selections from the Poems of John Keats. Written by John Keats, an English poet of the second generation of Romantic poets. With titles such as The Forest Shrine, Hymn to Pan, and The Under-World. Selections from the Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, an American poet and educator. With titles such as Evangeline, From the Golden Legend, and The Song of Hiawatha. Selections from the Poems of Christina Rossetti. Written by Christina Georgina Rossetti, an English writer of romantic, devotional and children's poems. With titles such as Goblin Market, Up-Hill, and The Convent Threshold. Selections from the Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson. Written by Alfred Lord Tennyson, an English poet who was appointed the Poet Laureate during much of Queen Victoria's reign. With titles such as The Lady of Shalott, Sir Galahad, and St. Agnes' Eve. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, smart with minor bumping to the extremities. Fading to the spine and board edges. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean. Age toning to the endpapers with an embossed stamp to the front endpaper. Very Good. book.
Editore: Manchester University Press, 1965
Da: Trafford Books PBFA, Manchester, Regno Unito
Membro dell'associazione: PBFA
EUR 47,36
Quantità: 1 disponibili
Aggiungi al carrelloHardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Octavo, xii, 539pp inc. index. Burgundy cloth binding with gilt text to creased spine, a little shelf wear to edges and corners, 2 previous owners initials/name to tanned first free end paper, , internally immaculate, no marks or inscriptions.
Editore: A. M. Kelley, 1968
Da: Stephen White Books, Bradford, Regno Unito
EUR 55,47
Quantità: 1 disponibili
Aggiungi al carrelloHardcover. Condizione: Good. Ex-library book, usual stamps and marking. Clean text, sound binding. Quick dispatch from UK seller.
Editore: Ward, Lock, & Tyler [1865], London, 1865
Prima edizione
EUR 82,88
Quantità: 1 disponibili
Aggiungi al carrelloCloth. Condizione: Very Good. C. W. Cope; Birket Foster; William Harvey; et al. (illustratore). First edition. A beautifully colour illustrated collection of poems from noted writers such as Tennyson and Longfellow, with illustrations by Birket Foster and many other talented artists. A very scarce illustrated collection of poems.Illustrated with a full colour frontispiece and twenty-two colour plates. Collated, Complete. The decorative ornaments are by Albert H. Warren, with illustrations drawn by Birket Foster, C. W. Cope and others, all engraved and printed by Edmund Evans.This work features a collection of poems written by celebrated poets such as Longfellow, Burns, Coleridge, Tennyson and many others, all wonderfully accompanied with colour illustrations.Bound in the original decorative cloth, rebacked. In the publisher's original decorative cloth, rebacked. Externally very smart with slight rubbing to the extremities, marks to the boards, heavier to the rear, and a very slight lean. Internally firmly bound with very slight strain between pp. 82-3. Pages lightly age toned with spotting throughout. Very Good. book.
Editore: NP, Ho-Ho-Kus, NJ; Philadelphia, PA; Proctor Valley (Catskills, NY), 1863
Da: ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB), Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione: g to vg. Manuscript. Octavo. Unpaginated. [144]pp. Original gilt-stamped half morocco over blind-stamped purple cloth notebook. Gold-ruling along joints. All edges gilt. Handsome hand-written copy book of poems written by a young girl whose name is unknown. Begun in Ho-Ho-Kus, NJ, on 7/31/1860, when the young girl was 14, this book was completed in Philadelphia on 2/20/1863, at the age of 17. In her notebook, the young girl copied 88 poems of some of the most famous British and American poets of the 19th century, such as: John Moultrie, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Caroline Norton, Walter Scott, Lord Alfred Tennyson, Phoebe Cary, Felicia Hemans, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Dinah Maria Mulock Craik. The poems were copied from the following papers and books: "The Harper's Magazine," "The Churchman's Magazine," "John Halifax, Gentleman," "The Church Journal," "The Eclectic Magazine," "Littell's Living Age," "The Angel Visitor," and other magazines or newspapers only mentioned by "copied from a paper." At the end of each poem is featured the source from which the poem came from, as well as the place, and the date when the poem was finished to be copied in the notebook. Head of spine slightly chipped. Moderate rubbing along edges. Some soiling to endpapers. Previous owner's stamp at upper margin of front leaf (Property of Louis Gauch - Received May 13, 1936). Binding in overall good- to good, interior in very good condition.
Editore: Coward-McCann, Inc., New York, 1935
Da: Churchill Book Collector ABAA/ILAB/IOBA, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Copia autografata
Hardcover. Second edition. This is a lovely presentation copy of the second edition of this Christmas anthology, edited by Robert Frost's eldest daughter, featuring several noteworthy signatures, inscriptions, and presentations. This copy offers a compelling and ostensibly unique convocation of associations - including the poet Robert Frost, his daughter Lesley Frost, (in)famous Frost collector Earl J. Bernheimer, and newspaper columnist and syndicator George Matthew Adams. A two-page facsimile manuscript of Robert Frost's poem "Good Relief" fills two pages preceding the title page. Below his facsimile signature, in six lines in black ink, Frost signed and wrote "Robert Frost - | second | signature | for | Earl J. Bernheimer | April 5 1936". The Editor, Leslie Frost, signed "Lesley Frost" below her printed name on the title page. She further signed and inscribed the front free endpaper recto in five lines (three at the upper center, two at the lower left): "For | George Matthew Adams | from | Lesley Frost | N.Y.C. | June 1951". Already unique by inscriptions and association, this copy is also noteworthy for condition, approaching fine in a very good plus dust jacket. It is an attractive little book, bound in blue cloth with elaborate gilt print and illustration on the spine, the contents bound with red and yellow head and tail bands and yellow-stained top edges. The dust jacket is striking, printed in green, red, and black on a silver background, the holly leaves and banners design of the binding spine repeated in color on both the jacket spine and front face edges, with further illustrations on both faces. This copy's blue cloth binding is square, clean, bright, tight, and sharp-cornered, with only trivial hints of shelf wear to extremities. The contents are clean and bright, with no spotting, no soiling, no appreciable toning, and retaining a crisp feel. The dust jacket is bright, unclipped, and nearly complete, with only fractional loss at the spine head, flap fold corners, and the bottom edge of the front face. Light soiling to the rear face and minor scuffs, primarily to the extremities, joints, and flap folds, do not significantly mar the book's excellent presentation. The book is housed in a marbled-paper-lined black cloth chemise nested within a black cloth slipcase with three, gilt-printed, dark red leather spine labels. The slipcase is intact, though worn with some loss to the perimeter of the labels. The circa 1929 facsimile manuscript of Frost's poem "Good Relief" herein is the first published appearance of this poem, which was never included by Robert Frost in one of his collections. "The poem was begun in Beaconsfield, England, in 1912." It was first printed in the first, 1929 edition of Come Christmas, and printed again here in the 1935 second edition.The recipient for whom Frost inscribed this copy was one of the twentieth century's first significant Frost collectors. A wealthy, Beverly Hills bibliophile, Earl J. Bernheimer began collecting Frost's books and manuscripts in 1936 - the same year Frost inscribed this copy of Come Christmas to him. Capitalizing on Frost's financial anxieties, Bernheimer eventually acquired from Frost a magnificent trove of Frostiana, with Frost entertaining the hope and understanding that "Bernheimer would one day donate everything to a single university library." Instead, owing in part to a rancorous and expensive divorce and to Frost's manifest resentment Bernheimer sold off his collection in a famous 1950 New York auction.The editor, Lesley Frost Ballantine or Lesley Frost as she always liked to be known (1899-1983) was the second child of Robert and Elinor Frost. She spent her early childhood on the Derry, New Hampshire farm that informed her father's developing poetic voice and where he drafted many of his early poems. It was during her first marriage and after the birth of her first daughter, Elinor (named after her mother and to whom this book is dedicated) that Leslie edited this collection of "Christmas Poetry, Song, Drama and Prose". This 1935 second edition was issued when Lesley was divorced and teaching. She was an author and worked in various fields, but her most well-known work was as custodian of her father's legacy. She eventually served as the first chair of the Robert Frost Foundation, oversaw restoration of the Frost farm in Derry, and gained "an international reputation for her correspondence with her father's friends and for her articles and lectures on his work."George Matthew Adams (1878-1962), to whom Lesley's inscription is addressed, was a newspaper columnist and founder of the George Matthew Adams News Service, which syndicated columns and comic strips to more than one hundred newspapers all over the world over the course of half a century.References: Crane E17; Parini, Robert Frost: A Life; Tuten and Zubizarreta; University of New Hampshire; University of Rochester, ANB.