Collected Poems of Robert P. Tristram by Coffin, Robert P. Tristram - 1939

hardcover in dust jacket - text appears clean and unmarked with some foxing, binding is square and tight, covers are lightly worn, DJ has is heavily worn and price clipped-- Dependable seller since 1994, daily shipping with tracking from our brick and mortar store in Madison, Wisconsin.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1939. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. At 354 pages long this book is blue with white text and the dust jacket is torn along the top and bottom edges. The book contains many poems such as Serenade, Hawk's Beauty, Silhouette, The Haters, The Mark and dozens more.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1945.. 1945.. Very good. - Octavo, blue cloth titled in gilt on the front cover & spine, in a dust wrapper. The covers are lightly bumped. The dust jacket is rubbed, soiled & chipped with small pieces out & creasing to the top edge. xxxi, [1] leaf & 354 pages. Illustrated with a black-and-white portrait frontispiece. There is light staining & foxing to the front pastedown & endpaper. Very good in a good dust wrapper. <p>Later printing.<p>Inscribed by the author to Mabel Whiteside, with a drawing of seagulls, on the front endpaper: "For Mabel Whiteside / who does in plays and lovely motion what I try to do in words / With my best wishes / Robert P. Tristram Coffin". Mabel K. Whiteside was a professor of Greek at Randolph-Macon Woman's College for fifty years. Each year from 1909 to 1954, she directed an original- language production of a Greek play with her students.