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Eskside Lyrics
 David Cuthbertson
1878 First Edition

EXTREMELY RARE

Book is in Good +++ condition for its age

    * Very HTF book of Scottish poetry.  First poetry book by Scottish poet David Cuthbertson
    * You see very, very few books this old in this great a condition.Binding tight, pages clean. Pages are browned, but not brittle.
    * Cover has obvious wear for age of book, but as pictures show, the color is still very bright and vivid





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Poems By Felicia Hemans, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Others Equally Distinguished Poets
undated - 1850's or 1860's likely

 

  • Book is in Excellent condition for age
  • Edgewood Edition, 316 pages. Undated but believed to be 1850's - 1860's vintage
  • Includes 3 separate books bound together: 
    • Songs of the Affections, by Felicia Hemans , 
    • Poems of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and 
    • Poems by Distinguished English Authors, including Shelley, Spenser, Burns, and many more.
  • Pages starting to yellow at the edges, but all pages extremely clean and still tightly bound. Book appears lightly used.
  • Cover has shelf wear and aging as might be expected

 

 

 

 

$74.95

Sonnets form the Portuguese and Other Love Poems
by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 

 

Book is in Good overall condition in DJ

  • Illustrated in color by Adolf Hallman, 
  • Hanover House, 1954, 107 pages. 
  • Chipping to edges of cover, inside of front cover is damaged, with cut our inside leaf. 
  • Pages all clean and tightly bound. 
  • Wonderfully illustrated, many full page in color. 

 

 

 

$13.95

Das Nibelungenlied für das deutsche Haus
by Emil Engelmann

Book is in Very Good+ condition for age

    * Book is in the German language
    * An epic poem about the German household in 37 separate poetic chapters
    * Paul Neff Verlag, 1900,  228 pages plus 11 facsimile plates
    * Also includes reproduction of the original handwritten manuscript.
    * Nicely illustrated cover as shown
    * All pages tightly bound, and very clean with slight yellowing around the edges
    * Corners bumped, hinges are a little weak, personal library bookplate inside cover


$74.95
Palmström
by Christian Morgenstern

Book is in Excellent condition for age

    * Morgenstern’s best known work of absurdist, sharp-edged satiric poetry
    * 1926 reprint of 1910 original. Cloth with pictorial cover
    * Rag paper, rough cut.
    * Pages are very clean and white
    * Cover is somewhat dirty / schmutzig
    * Binding is tight
    * Publisher: Berlin, Bruno Cassirer, 1926, 50.-54. Tsd., In German, 81 pages.





$17.95
In & Out
by Tom Robinson, Illustrated by Marguerite De Angeli
1944 1st Edition, 2nd Printing

Book is in Very Good condition, no DJ

    * Nice illustrated volume of verse. Color and black and white drawings by Marguerite De Angeli.
    * Blue boards, faded from sun on the spine
    * Pages clean, binding tight
    * New York Viking Press 1944, First Edition Hardcover, Second Printing Stated. 
    * 140 pages including index of titles and first lines.


$24.95
Callaloo, Vol 32, no. 1 - Celebrating Texas Writers
by various authors

 

  • Book is in Very Good ++ condition
  • Softcover, 336 pg, 2009, Johns Hopkins Univ Press. 
  • Minor shelfwear, very clean inside, no markings. Cover has a bend in the lower corner as seen in image
  • Includes:
    • Poetry (predominately, the book is poetry)
    • Non-fiction prose
    • Art
    • and more

 

 

 

$19.95

 

West Side Story
Story by Arthur Laurents, Music by Leonard Bernstein, Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
1958 5th Printing of 1st Edition

GOOD++ Condition overall. Cover is in GOOD condition, insides in VERY GOOD condition, DJ is in VERY GOOD condition

    * The classic musical story that brings the Romeo/Juliet story to life on the West Side of New York.
    * This is the entire script of the original Broadway Play
    * Ex-Library copy, DJ well preserved in mylar,
    * Pages clean with a little bit of pencil markings and some pages have a little staining, but still insides are in VERY GOOD condition
    * Published by Random House, 1958 5th printing of 1st edition, 143 pages





42.95
Whitman in the Light of Vedantic Mysticism
by V. K. Chari
1st edition


Book is in EXCELLENT condition. No DJ

    * The author's attempt to give a consistent account of Walt Whitman's poetic thought and belief, wherein he discovers a unifying principle in the preoccupation with the problem of self.  This study is substantially the text of the author's doctoral dissertation.
    * Vedantic: The system of Hindu philosophy that further develops the implications that all reality is a single principle, and teaches that the believer's goal is to transcend the limitations of self-identity and realize one's unity
    * 1st ed thus
    * Univ of Nebraska Press, 1964, 176 pages
    * Bookplate inside front cover
    * Minor underlining / notation all lightly in pencil
    * Pages are very clean, binding tight
    * Browning along inside seam of covers, front and back.







$42.95