1859 "Courtship of Miles Standish", 1946 Owen Dodson and Other Vintage Poetry
Item Details
A collection of five vintage poetry books, all bound in cloth-covered boards. This collection features an early edition of The Courtship of Miles Standish and Other Poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, published by Ticknor and Fields of Boston in 1859. This collection also includes an edition of Robert Louis Stevenson’s A Child’s Garden of Verses with illustrations by Jessie Willcox Smith (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1929), Powerful Long Ladder by Owen Dodson (New York: Farrar, Straus and Company, 1946), Mediaeval Latin Lyrics translated by Helen Waddell (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1933), and Chaucer’s Major Poetry edited by Albert C. Baugh (New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, c. 1963).
Binding | Cloth on board |
Complete Set | Yes |
Number of Books | 5 |
Condition
- edge and corner wear; wear and tear to dust jackets where present; wear and discoloration to cloth; loose bindings; toning; writing or bookseller labels in some books; loose and detached pages in A Child’s Garden of Verses.
Dimensions
- measures A Child’s Garden of Verses.
Item #
18IND063-156