The Courtin'
by Lowell, James Russell
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine
- Seller
-
Bordentown, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1909. First Thus. Decorated Cloth. Fine. Arthur I Keller. First edition thus, the first illustrated edition. White linen spine over blue paper covered boards ornately lettered in gilt and with a silhouette of a seated woman peeling fruit as seen through a gilt window casement. Beautifully illustrated throughout in color by Arthur I Keller. facsimile of the manuscript appears as the final few leaves. Charming poem of a Yankee courtship; it first appeared in the 1870s as part of "The Bigelow Papers". Lowell, who called this piece "The only attempt I ever made at anything like a pastoral, penned it as an inclusion at the end of the inrtoduction to the first series of The Bigelow Papers when his publisher informed him as the book was going to press that there was a blank page which needed to be filled. A bright, clean copy with a slight bump to the upper right corner.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- D8945B
- Title
- The Courtin'
- Author
- Lowell, James Russell
- Illustrator
- Arthur I Keller
- Format/Binding
- Decorated Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Thus
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1909
- Keywords
- Illustrators, Illustrated
Terms of Sale
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
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About the Seller
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
Biblio member since 2005
Bordentown, New Jersey
About The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown is a general used/rare bookshop open to the public Tues.-Sunday 11AM to 5PM (8 PM on Fridays). 10,000 books on premises with another 25,000 in stock. Areas of speciality include baseball, New Jersey, American literature, mysteries. Member, ABAA, ILAB,Antiquarian Booksellers of New Jersey. Located in historic Bordentown City, New Jeresy (est. 1682).
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- Gilt
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