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SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY
by Masters, Edgar Lee
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No jacket
- Seller
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Yarmouthport, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
New York:The Macmillan Company, 1915. First Edition. hard cover. Very Good/No jacket. New York:The Macmillan Company. 1915. 1st edition, published April, 1915. xvii+248pp+6pp ads. Hardcover. Blueish -grey boards decorated in black and gilt is rubbed and lightly soiled, heaviest on spine strip where gilt is dulled. Light overall shelfwear. Page edges soiled. Internally, end pages slightly age toned with a previous owners bookplate to top of 1st free endpage and residue on the inside front board from a bookplate no longer attached. Otherwise paper slightly age-toned but clean, save for an occasional smudge. The binding is tight and hinges intact. A very good copy.
Synopsis
The innovative free verse collection of small-town life that made Edgar Lee Masters a legend A literary sensation when it appeared in 1915, Spoon River Anthology earned Edgar Lee Masters comparisons to T. S. Eliot and Walt Whitman. The characters who speak here tarnish the pure image of their Midwestern hamlet by holding forth from the grave with tales of illicit love affairs, betrayed confidences, political corruption, and miserable marriages. The first serious work of psychological naturalism, this artful indictment of small-town hypocrisy influenced Theodore Dreiser, William Faulkner, and other luminaries.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Parnassus Book Service
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23748
- Title
- SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY
- Author
- Masters, Edgar Lee
- Format/Binding
- Hard cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- New York:The Macmillan Company
- Date Published
- 1915
- Keywords
- LITERATURE; POETRY; EDGAR LEE MASTERS
Terms of Sale
Parnassus Book Service
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About the Seller
Parnassus Book Service
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Yarmouthport, Massachusetts
About Parnassus Book Service
Ben Muse began selling books from the former Knowles General Store in 1959. Now in our third generation, we are a famiy-run, general book store selling new and old (often rare) books as well as issuing specialty catalogs on a variety of subjects: Americana, Latin America, Maritime, Art, the Orient and a variety of other subjects. If you can't find what you are looking for here on the web, please contact us directly at our Yarmouthport shop -- or better yet stop by to browse and talk. We look forward to seeing you.
Glossary
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- Spine Strip
- The material covering the spine, or the rear portion of the outside of a book.
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- 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...
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- 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...
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