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Tamburlaine And Other Verses by Reed, John - 1917

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Tamburlaine And Other Verses by Reed, John - 1917

Tamburlaine And Other Verses

by Reed, John

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[Riverside, Connecticut]: Hillacre, 1917. First Edition.

Small Quarto (9 3/4 x 6 3/8 inches; 245 x 160 mm), 41, [1] pages, blue paper over heavy gray card stock, printed label to upper board (hard cover).

A collection of 25 poems, one of 450 copies on Utopian laid paper from a total edition of 500. For many readers, poems by John Reed may come as a revelation. Reed (1887-1920) is better known as the author of Ten Days That Shook the World, his eyewitness account of the Russian Revolution.

CONDITION: Largely unopened along the top edge, light edge wear, sunning to a corner of rear cover, closed tear of about 2 inches (45 mm) at the bottom of the spine where it meets the front cover. A Very Good or better copy of a fragile book.



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  • Edition First Edition
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  • Publisher Hillacre
  • Place of Publication [Riverside, Connecticut]
  • Date Published 1917
  • Keywords Poetry

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Tamburlaine and Other Verses

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Riverside, Connecticut: Hillacre, 1917. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Hardcover with wrapped dust jacket, 9-3/4" tall, 41 pp. Shelfwear and some splitting (minor loss) to bottom edge of dust jacket, some pages unopened. One of 450 copies on Utopian laid paper. A lovely fine press publication of this collection of previously published poetry (and juvenalia, in Reed's estimation.) Frederick C. Bursch.
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Riverside, Ct: Hillacre, 1917. First Edition. One of 450 copies. Slight chipping at the top and bottom of spine, a little wear at the corners, else a very ggod plus to near fine copy.
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(Hillacre, Riverside, Connecticut): [Privately Printed], 1917. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. 41pp. Blue paper-covered boards with printed label on front cover. Owner's bookplate on front flyleaf (with some glue offset onto front pastedown, tiny nick at top edge of front board, a ioce, near fine copy. Limited to 450 copies on Utopian Laid Paper (of a total edition of 500 copies.
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Riverside, CT: Hillacre. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1917. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Front label a bit tanned. Former owner's name on first blank page. A very handsome copy. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 41 pages .
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(Hillacre, Riverside, Connecticut): [Privately printed], 1917. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. 41pp. Blue paper-covered boards with printed paper label on front board. Tiny bumped tear at crown of spine and one corner, a near fine copy. Limited to 450 copies on Utopian Laid Paper (of a total edition of 500 copies).
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Riverside CT: Hillacre. 1917. First Edition. 1/450 copies; paper wrapper on plain card covers, very good+; Wrapper chipped on spine, points & edges else nice. .
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Riverside: Hillacre, 1917. Limited First Edition of 450 Copies. Hardcover. Slim octavo, 41 pages; G+; Housed in brown cardboard case, with rare glassine dustjacket (with significant age-toning and chipping); case has moderate wear to edges and corners; Boards show light plus bumping to top edges and head/tail of spine; Textblock has very light age-toning to uncut edges; Most pages remain uncut. Shelved in Room G. 1355593. Special Collections.
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Riverside, CT: Hillacre, 1917. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good +. The 1917 1st edition, IN ITS UNCOMMON GLASSINE DUSTJACKET. Clean and Near Fine to Fine in a Near Fine example of the fragile jacket, with a tiny amount of chipping along the spine and at the spine crown, and light chipping to the rear panel's bottom-edge. Octavo, one of 450 copies printed on Utopian Laid Paper. Published by Frederick C. Bursche at Hillacre, Riverside (Greenwich), CT.
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Riverside: Hillacre, 1917. Limited First Edition, 1/450 Copies. Hardcover. Slim octavo, 41 pages. In Very Good condition. In rare glassine dust jacket (significantly age-toned). Dustjacket has light chipping to fore-edge of front cover and head and tail of spine. Boards have light wear to top and bottom edges. Text block has very light age toning to uncut edges. Most pages remain uncut. RW Consignment. 1354269. Special Collections.
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TAMBURLAINE AND OTHER VERSES

TAMBURLAINE AND OTHER VERSES

by REED, John

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  • Hardcover
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Used - Dampstaining to the bottom of the spine of the larger limitation copy with little effect on the text. Some aging to the leather
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First Edition
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(Riverside, CT): Hillacre, 1917. First Edition. Hardcover. Dampstaining to the bottom of the spine of the larger limitation copy with little effect on the text. Some aging to the leather of the smaller limitation volume and soiling to the endpapers. Both Very Good. Small quarto (6-1/4" x 9-1/2"). Issued in an edition of 500 copies, 450 on Utopian laid paper and 50 on Nordeling hand-made paper. Present here are examples of each of the two issues. The larger limitation is as published in blue paper-covered boards with a printed paper label on the front cover. The smaller limitation is bound by E. C. Lewis Co., Baylis Bindery, New York, in full black morocco leather with gilt-ruled panels and a new gilt-decorated and lettered spine, marbled endpapers. The smaller limitation is uncommon in the market. Though there is no indication of such in the books themselves, both of these volumes were in the possession of Louis Bryant, Reed's wife. Perhaps the best known left-wing American journalist of the… Read More
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