Library of World Poetry Being Choice Selections From the Best Poets
by Various (Ed By William Cullen Bryant)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Unknown
- ISBN 10
- 0517436345
- ISBN 13
- 9780517436349
- Seller
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Concord, California, United States
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About This Item
Chatham River Press, 1984.. Very Good/Unknown. Octavo, hardcover, near fine in ornate padded simulated black leather boards with gilt design and lettering. Raised ribs on spine. All pages edged in gilt. An excellent gift. Filled with illustrations of steel and wood engravings (including protraits of 20 poets), and facsimles of autographed manuscripts, it has an introduction by William Cullen Bryant. It is nearly as possible the most complete and general collection of poetry yet published. Poems of Childhood: Infancy, Youth; Poems of the Affections: Friendship, Compliment and Admiration, Love, Marriage, Home, Filial and Fraternal Love, Parting, Absence, Disappointment and Estrangement, Bereavement and Death; Poems of Sorrow and Adversity and many more.
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- Bookseller
- bookwitch (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 49007
- Title
- Library of World Poetry Being Choice Selections From the Best Poets
- Author
- Various (Ed By William Cullen Bryant)
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Unknown
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0517436345
- ISBN 13
- 9780517436349
- Publisher
- Chatham River Press, 1984.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- October 4, 1986
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