WINE AND PHYSIC: A Poem and Six Essays on the Fate of Our Language. With Decorations by Isabel Lattimore
by Laing, Alexander
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Cadyville, New York, United States
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About This Item
NY: Farrar & Rhinehart Incorporated, (1934).. (1934).. Good. - 8vo, light grayish-green cloth (bumped); titled in gilt on spine with title & decoration in gilt on front cover; in tan dw (price clipped; stained & darkened; chipped at edges with several small tears and small pieces out; tears along folds of front & rear flaps); titled in black with vignette in red. xii & 157pp. (owner's inscription on the front endpaper). Title vignette, headpieces & textual illustrations by Isabel Lattimore. Very good in a fair dw. <p>First edition. "Wine and Physic contains 'The Flowering Thorn,' a long poem of modern philosophic implications, accompanied by six essays which expand and confirm the thought launched in the poem. In 'The Flowering Thorn,' Mr. Laing achieves beauty of expression as well as a new statement of a critical and ethical credo for his generation...." -- From the dw blurb.
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- Bookseller
- Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 22410
- Title
- WINE AND PHYSIC: A Poem and Six Essays on the Fate of Our Language. With Decorations by Isabel Lattimore
- Author
- Laing, Alexander
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- NY: Farrar & Rhinehart Incorporated, (1934).
- Date Published
- (1934).
- Keywords
- LITERATURE; POETRY; POEM; LITERARY PHILOSOPHY; WINE AND PHYSIC; FLOWERING THORN; ESSAYS; CRITICISM; CRITICAL ESSAY; ALEXANDER LAING; ILLUSTRATIONS; ISABEL LATTIMORE; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION; 20TH CENTURY; TWENTIETH CENTURY.
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Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
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Cadyville, New York
About Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd. (incorporated 1989) is a general antiquarian book store which buys and sells collections and individual items of significance. Booksellers Ric Zank and Daniel Meunier each bring to the business over 18 years of experience in seeking out and offering for sale unusual, uncommon and rare books, autographs, and ephemera in all fields. Our office is open 7 days a week from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and frequently later. An answering machine will take your message after hours and when we are out of the office.
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