The mosher press (2 resultados)

No Binding. Condición: Collectible-Very Good. Original advertisement for a poetry book printed in limited edition, Frontier, written by Frederic Brush. Printed as a flyer on beige paper. No date, circa 1920. 4" x 6 3/4." One page, complete. One leaf printed on the front. Paper is very clean and intact overall except for a some wrinkling. The book's specifications and pricing is listed as follows: "500 copies, Small Quarto, Printed on Van Gelder Paper, Decorated Blue Boards, Uncut, and in Slide Case, $3.00 Net." "The Mosher Press, Portland Maine" printed at the bottom. The rest of the flyer includes a summary and positive review of the book. Excerpt from the ad: "In this essentially new book of poems Dr. Brush holds again the atmosphere of his native hills, augmenting his earlier work with much humorous upland-folk-verse, and including the best from his earlier successful Songs of the Susquehanna. . A certain originality of language and motive growing directly from the [e]ntrenched old American hill peoples' thought and customs, with a constant singing lyric beauty, should give these poems permanent place in the growing literature of the Allegh[e]nies.".…

No Binding. Condición: Collectible-Very Good. Original advertisement for a poetry book printed in limited edition, Frontier, written by Isabel Fiske Conant, with a foreword by Corinne Roosevelt Robinson. Printed as a flyer on beige paper. No date, circa 1924. 3 3/4" x 6 3/4." One page, complete. One leaf printed on the front. Paper is very clean and intact overall except for a some wrinkling. The book's specifications and pricing is listed as follows: "500 copies, Small Quarto, Printed on Van Gelder Paper, Decorated Blue Boards, $1.50 Net. With Portrait and Autographed $2.00." "The Mosher Press, Portland Maine" printed at the bottom. The rest of the flyer includes positive reviews of the book by different newspapers and publications. Example of one of the reviews: "Isabel Fiske Conant is a poet's poet. She writes inevitably. There is no grandiose manner, no extrinsic decoration. Her poems are a 'state of crisis,' which Mallarmee defined as true inspiration . The result is a splendid restraint, an austerity which is rare in modern poetry.--Blanche Shoemake Wagstaff in New York Sunday Herald-Tribune.".…