Search Results: the garment of praise the necessity by chilton eleanor carroll

Doubleday, Doran & Company, January 1929. Hardcover. Acceptable.

Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1929. First edition. . Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket. Flawed by top spine edge wear and dulled spine titles. Nice top gilt page block. Solid, clean inside.. 1 401 p. Dark tightly woven cloth over boards. Brown spine title box. Discussion and critique on three themes: The Nature of Poetry; English Poetry and English History; Poetry and the World To-day. Index of Authors; Index of Titles.

Garden City NY: Doubleday, Doran, 1929. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 401.Cover somewhat worn, one hinge tender, o/w VG.

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, & Co., 1929. Black cloth. Ex-library, light waterstain at top edge margins: VG/no dj. 8vo. First Edition so stated.

NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1929. Previous owner's bookplate to front paste-down. Chipping to extremes. 393 pp. critical work on the necessity for Poetry. . First Edition. Hard Cover. VG++/VG.

New York: Doubleday, Doran , 1929. Hardcover. Very Good Plus. FIRST EDITION. Top Edge Gilt. No dustjacket. Cracked spine, still tight. Lightly age-tanned. Fore-edges untrimmed. Mild shelfwear with two white scrapes, 1.25" and .5", to front board. Corners lightly nudged. Spine caps gently folded under. Gilt lettering debossed on tan background to spine of black cloth-covered boards. Clean, and bright. 401 pp with indices. HEAVY. Requires EXTRA shipping if going overseas. This book shows what poetry seeks to accomplish, by illustrating this from the history of English poetry, and by suggesting that in spite of its present short-comings poetry may prove as valuable in the future as it has proved in the past. Written in three parts : The Nature of Poetry ; English Poetry and English History ; Poetry and the World To-Day.