Spoon River Anthology

by Masters, Edgar Lee

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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New York: The Macmillan Company, 1915. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition, first issue. (Book measures 7/8" across top.) Presentation copy signed by Edgar Lee Masters in the year of publication, inscribed "To Caroline Blackman, with the sincere friendship of E.L. Masters May 3rd 1915." xvii, 248, [6, ads] pp. Original bluish green cloth with gilt lettering, housed… Read more about this item
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New York: Macmillan Company, 1916. Hardcover. Very Good. New illustrated edition. xxi, 310pp., [6pp. advertisements] Illustrated by Oliver Herford. Blind and gilt-stamped black cloth, top edge gilt. Small stains on bottom page edges, a couple of the "Contents" pages are unopened, spine and edges sunned and rubbed, very good lacking the scarce dustwrapper. This new edition has thirty-five… Read more about this item
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New York: The Macmillan Company, 1915. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition, first issue. (Book measures 7/8" across top.) xvii, 248, (6, ads) pp. Original bluish green cloth with gilt lettering. Near Fine with light wear to tips, former owner's name on front free endpaper, lacking jacket. One of the all-time bestselling works of poetry in America, still… Read more about this item
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New York: The Macmillan Company, 1915. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo, xvii, 248 pages. In Good plus condition. Bound in green cloth with gilt lettering and black detailing on spine and front cover. Boards have rubbing to corners, tearing and fraying to spine edges, light sunning to spine, and mild edge and shelf wear. Binding somewhat shaken. Textblock… Read more about this item
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New York: The Macmillan Company, 1915. Gift quality copy. Previous owner's ink signature on ffep; bottom edge of front board very lightly rubbed from shelving, otherwise textblock and the finely ribbed binding is immaculate and tight; dust jacket displays original book price of $1.25 on spine; the unrestored dust jacket has pronounced character soil and smudge spots, with extremities and… Read more about this item
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New York: Macmillan, 1916. Book. Illus. by Oliver Herford. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. First printing of the "New Illustrated Edition, with New Poems", dated October, 1916. 310 pp. plus advertising. Moderate wear to the extremities. The spine is sunned. In a square, sound binding with hinges intact..
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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… Read more about this item
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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. Bluish-grey boards decorated in black and gilt is lightly soiled, heaviest on spine strip where gilt is dulled. Light shelfwear to spine ends. Internally, end pages slightly age toned with a previous owners… Read more about this item
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Macmillan, 1920. Hardcover. Very Good. Signed by Author(s). Signed (name only) by Masters on front endpaper, fairly early reprint. Black cloth boards with blindstamped cover and spine with gilt lettering to spinee, 7-3/4" x 5/3/8", 310 pp. Modest fading to spine and strip of front board near spine. Two newspaper clippings (one an obit) and a typed bio affixed to… Read more about this item
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New York: The Macmillan Company, 1924. Near Fine. Signed by Masters to former owner on front free endpaper, dated February 16, 1925. New edition, fourth printing. xviii, 306 pp. Original black cloth with blindstamped front board, gilt spine lettering. Near Fine with offsetting to front free endpaper, former owner's info written on last page in pencil. Cloth very… Read more about this item
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New York: Limited Editions Club, 1942. Hardcover. Spine darkened, as often the case, with some foxing to the covers. Very Good or better in a Good, intact slipcase with some discoloration. Boardman Robinson. Tall octavo (7" x 10-1/2") bound in full linen with a gilt-lettered leather label. Printed by Joseph Blumenthal at the Spiral Press. Copy #845 of… Read more about this item
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The MacMillan Company, 1916. Good Hardcover Illustrated by Oliver Herford early printing 1916. Early American Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Dust Cover. Illus. by Herford, Oliver.
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From the Estate of Barbara Walters. Spoon River Anthology. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1942. Spoon River Anthology (1915) is a collection of short free verse poems by Edgar Lee Masters. The poems collectively narrate the epitaphs of the residents of Spoon River, a fictional small town named after the Spoon River, which ran near Masters's home town of Lewistown,… Read more about this item
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Signed, inscribed and dated by author in 1916. 11th printing December 1915. Browning from clipping (still present) on multiple endpapers else in pretty good shape
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New York: MacMillan, 1968, 1968. Hardcover. Very Good. Fourth Printing. 8vo. xiv, 297 pp. Woodcut illustrations. Publishers quarter black cloth with illustrated paper boards lettered in green and gilt at spine. Faint toning, one small square spot of discoloration at top corner of front board. Very Good. In acetate sleeve with small half-inch tear at rear panel.
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by Edgar Lee Masters

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New York: MacMillan Company. 1916. New Illustrated Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in boards. Owner name on FEP. Both hinges cracked. Bumping along top panel corners. .
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Spoon River Anthology (Dover Thrift Editions: Poetry)

by Edgar Lee Masters

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1992
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Dover Publications. 1992 Dover Publications paperback, Dover Thrift Editions; very good clean copy, appears unread, lightly aged in storage; UK dealer, immediate dispatch . Very Good. Soft cover. 1992.
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by Masters, Edgar Lee

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