THE CAGED EAGLE AND OTHER POEMS (SIGNED)
by STERLING, George
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Plus/Custom Clear Mylar
- Seller
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Nevada City, California, United States
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About This Item
San Francisco: A. M. Robertson, 1916. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good Plus/Custom Clear Mylar. 168 pp. SIGNED/INSCRIBED by George Sterling in ink as a presentation copy to Sterling's sister on a front free endpaper: "For my darling sister Madelaine with my best love, George. / San Francisco, Oct. 18th, 1916". Green cloth. 5 1/2" x 7 3/4". Some poems pencil-checked. Corrections (by Sterling?) in ink to typos at pages 92 and 162. A group of poems, including those "On The Great War". Poet/Playwright George Sterling (1869-1926) was a resident member of early Carmel's bohemian group and a friend of Jack London, Mary Austin and Robinson Jeffers. His later years were spent in San Francisco, where he died by his own hand in 1926. Mattilla A12. A nice association copy. A Good Plus copy (Soiled covers; ink stain and insect tracings to front cover, spine titling rubbed away; toning to endpapers, front hinge partly open, but holding; edgewear, mainly to spine-ends), now in a custom 4mil clear mylar jacket. ALWAYS FREE SHIPPING of our books in boxes, via media mail, to any United States address.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Hardy Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2415
- Title
- THE CAGED EAGLE AND OTHER POEMS (SIGNED)
- Author
- STERLING, George
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Plus
- Jacket Condition
- Custom Clear Mylar
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- A. M. Robertson
- Place of Publication
- San Francisco
- Date Published
- 1916
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry; San Francisco;
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