PRIZE SELECTIONS : FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS BEING FROM ENGLISH AND AMERICAN POETS: From Chaucer to the Present Time
by Moulton, C. W. (Compiler & Editor)
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/None (As Issued?)
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Berkeley, California, United States
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About This Item
Boston, MA: D. Lothrop & Company, 1887. First Edition, First Thus . Hard Cover/Stitched. Very Good/None (As Issued?). Text/Near New & Bright w/some check marks. Vintage 1887 First Edition, Furst Thus. Blue linen boards w/gilt lettering/NF --- with "$300.00" to lower front also in gilt ( is not the price of the volume, but the publisher's offered prize to the reader able to correctly identify authors of quoted of lines), w/trace wear to surface & corner tips. DJ/None (as Issued?). PO names to front cover verso (dated 1892) and front endpaper (dated 12/1881), with numerals to rear endpaper. Light soiling, primarily to last pgs 240, 241 & 242. Collection of 825 familiar quotes from English and American poetry compiled by American poet Charles Wells Moulton (1859 - 1913), founder of the The Magazine of Poetry and Literary Review. 242 pages. A historical window to common cultural vocabulary of the 1890's in America.
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- 100 POCKETS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 018016
- Title
- PRIZE SELECTIONS : FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS BEING FROM ENGLISH AND AMERICAN POETS: From Chaucer to the Present Time
- Author
- Moulton, C. W. (Compiler & Editor)
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover/Stitched
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- None (As Issued?)
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Thus
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- D. Lothrop & Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston, MA
- Date Published
- 1887
- Pages
- 242
- Keywords
- Historical Quotations/Poetry/English/American
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