Stevenson burton egbert editor (5 resultados)

Cloth. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Blue cloth binding. The book has the normal library markings and attachments. The front hinge is beginning to crack. The binding has a lot of wiggle to it. The cover has a few small soil spots. 720 pages.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Revised Edition. Ex-library with a few stamps and markings. Red cloth boards with gold lettering on spine. Bumping and edge wear to boards. Binding is tight and square. Pages are clean throughout. A large selection of poetry for youngsters. Pogany, Willy (ilustrador).…

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Ninth Edition. These two books are clean and tight and square with sharp corners. Appear unread. Very little shelfwear. 4012 total pages within these two volumes. Red boards with gold lettering and designs on the spine and on the front. No dust jackets. 9th printing of the ninth edition. First published in 1912. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Poetry Collection.…

Hardcover. First Edition. Very Good with no dust jacket; Edgewear. Previous owner's name. ; B&W Illustrations; 388 pages.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Edition, First Thus. Collectible. Text/Near New. Gilt embossed blue linen boards/NF w/rubs & light fraying to corner tips & upper/lower spine. DJ/None. Gilting to upper text edge. Sound but worn front hinge; first blank endpaper loose. PO name pencilled to 2nd fEP. Closed tears to pg 501, and, 2" loss to pg 503 by hinge. Anthology of American history poems collected and edited by author and librarian Burton Egbert Stevenson (1872 - 1962). In assembling this anthology some were included for "its historical or political interest" because it is an expression of its time and place; these verse are often marked by admirable, spontaneous energy. Others, retropective ballads so to speak ("Paul Revere's Ride", for instance), were chosen because of their power to touch the heart and grip the imagination. A fiery protest against clerical oppessors by John Greenleaf Whittier, 1835, reads: "Just God! and these are they/Who minister at thine altar, God of Right!/Men who their hands with prayer and blessing lay/On Israel's Ark of Light!/What! preach, and kidnap men?/Give thanks, and rob thy own afflicted poor?/Talk of thy glorious liberty, and then/Bolt hard the captive's door?" Poems arranged by subject matter & historical sequence; author, first line, and title indices to rear. Strong copy despite flaws.…