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The Red Harvest: A Cry for Peace [Inscribed & Signed]
by [PACIFIST & ANTI-WAR MOVEMENTS] BURNS, Vincent Godfrey, ed. & intro
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
New York: Macmillan Company, 1930. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); original cloth in pictorial dust jacket by "Bell"; xxix,[5],433pp. General edge wear to jacket and cloth extremities, including a few tiny chips and brief splitting at top inch of upper flap fold, jacket spine a bit sunned, cloth spine gilt dulled, else Very Good and sound. Editor's inscription on front free endpaper: "May 12, 1959 / For Margaret S. Moyer / President of the Allentown Garden Club / With warmest friendship / Vincent Godfrey Burns." Anthology of anti-war poetry, chiefly composed during the Great War and organized by subject: "The Trenches," "Spring in War Time," "Women and War," "Armistice," "The Unknown Soldier," etc. Includes contributions by Conrad Aiken, Witter Bynner, Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, Stephen Crane, Rose Macaulay, and many others.
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- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 31580
- Title
- The Red Harvest: A Cry for Peace [Inscribed & Signed]
- Author
- [PACIFIST & ANTI-WAR MOVEMENTS] BURNS, Vincent Godfrey, ed. & intro
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Macmillan Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1930
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Poetry; WW1;
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About the Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Winchester, Virginia
About Lorne Bair Rare Books
Lorne Bair Rare Books specializes in books, mansuscripts, and printed ephemera relating to American Social History, with an emphasis on radical and utopian movements of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. We are available in our showroom by appointment, at shows, and on-line through various booksellers' sites or at our website www.lornebair.com.
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