Rhymes of a Homesteader
by Lincoln, Elliott C
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good -
- Seller
-
Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1920. Hardcover. Very Good -. Printed by the Riverside Press, Cambridge. vii, [1], 78, [2] p.; 22 cm. Black cloth spine with gilt-stamped spine title. Brown paper over boards with black stamped cover title. Lacking dust jacket. Title vignette of western scene. Some of the verses first appeared in Contemporary Verse, Adventure, Overland, and Sunset magazines. Born in Massachusetts, the author, Elliott Curtis Lincoln (1884-1970), came to Montana in 1908 to homestead; while homesteading he began writing and publishing poetry. He published several volumes of poetry, becoming known as a cowboy poet; in the 1920s he taught English at Washington State. This was his first book. In Very Good- Condition: edges are rubbed; minor loss of paper over boards along edges; boards are lightly soiled; pages are clean and tight.
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Classic Books and Ephemera (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003753
- Title
- Rhymes of a Homesteader
- Author
- Lincoln, Elliott C
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good -
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1920
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
Terms of Sale
Classic Books and Ephemera
If the item is not as described, the buyer must contact us within 72 hours of their receipt of it. We will refund the full amount with the costs of return shipping within 24 hours of receipt of the item.
About the Seller
Classic Books and Ephemera
Biblio member since 2006
Lansdowne, Pennsylvania
About Classic Books and Ephemera
We have a large stock, focusing primarily, but by no means exclusively, on 16th- to mid-19th-century books in English, French, and German in the fields of history, travel, and the arts, and children's books; late 19th- and early 20th-century military prints and postcards; and manuscripts, deeds, maps, and printed ephemera of all periods and disciplines.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....