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Lot 358:
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24 Books on Poetry and Poets including Poems that Touch the Heart compiled by A.L. Alexander c. 1948 20th edition; Laments for the Living by Dorothy Parker c. 1930 5th printing; two volumes Cameo Poets – The Poetical Works of S.T. Coleridge edited by Herman Hooker and Poems of William Cowper with a New Memoir c. 1890’s; Forms of English Poetry by Charles F. Johnson c. 1904; The Love Letters of Phyllis McGinley published by The Viking Press c. 1954; Proverbs to Live selected by Gail Peterson c. 1968; Selected Prose and Poetry by Ralph Waldo Emerson c. 1955 (paperback); Living Voices selected by Joh Silkin c. 1960; The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow c. 1894; Indicia by Lara Tucker Cottrell c. 2012; Gilgamesh – A New Rendering in English Verse by David Ferry c. 1992; Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson edited by Mabel Loomis Todd and T.W. Higginson c. 1982; Modern Poetry and the Tradition by Cleanth Brooks c. 1948; Modern American Poetry and Modern British Poetry – A Critical Anthology edited by Louis Untermeyer c. 1942; The Theory of Poetry by Lascelles Abercrombie c. 1926; The New Oxford Book of American Verse edited by Richard Ellmann c. 1976; The Poetry of Michelangelo translated by James M. Saslow c. 1991; The Flowers of Evil and Paris Spleen by Charles Baudelaire c. 1991; The Top 500 Poems edited by William Harmon c. 1992; The Book of the Thousand and a Night Volume X by Richard F. Burton printed by the Burton Club for Private Subscribers. Limited edition No. 135 of 1000 c. 1920; George Morland and the Evolution from Him to Some Later Painters by J.T. Nettleship c. 1898; and Two Volumes of The Life, Letters and Labors of Francis Galton by Karl Pearson (Vol. I c. 1914 and Vol. II c. 1924…please see condition). Combined lot measures approximately 15.5"x11.5"x14.5".
Condition: Condition – Good – Some volumes have light soiling and wear to covers. Some volumes have soiling to edges. Some volumes may have light toning and/or foxing. Some dust jackets have small tears and wear to edges. The Life, Letters and Labours of Francis Galton – poor – missing spines, covers loose, block edges soiled, bindings loose, water damage; George Morland – corners bumped, head and tail bumped; The The Book of the Thousand and a Night Volume X – wear to cover. Soiled cover and block edge. Please see photos.
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