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Sun, Sep 22, 2024 01:00PM EDT
Lot 221

Thirteen Antique Poetry Books Including James Thomson's, 'The Seasons', 1793.

Estimate: $120 - $180

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The Seasons. James Thomson. T. Chapman, London, 1793.

(llustrated with engravings by F. Bartolozzi and P.W. Tompkins from original pictures painted for the work by W. Hamilton?)

Tennyson’s Poetical Works, Routledge, NY. 364pp.

In Memoriam, Tennyson, Collin’s Clear Type, London. 136 stanzas, soft cover.

The Poems of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Osgood & Co, Boston, 1871. 410pp.

Poems by William Cullen Bryant, Appleton, NY, 1873. 363pp.  Decorated blue cloth, gilt fore edges.  

Poems by a Little Girl. Hilda Conkling. Stokes Company, New York. 120pp. 

Poems of Longfellow, Vol 2. Caldwell Company, NY.  352pp.

Poetical Works of Robert Browning. Oxford University Press. London. 1940. 698pp.

Reciter’s Treasury of Irish Verse and Prose. Graves and Pertwee. Routledge, London. Discarded library volume.  512pp.

The Poems of Emily Dickinson. Centenary Edition, Little Brown, Boston. 1934. 401pp.

Evangeline, Longfellow. Illustrated by Gilbert and Dicksee.  Grosset and Dunlap, NY. 158pp.  c.1900.

The Poetry of Robert Frost, edited by Edward Latham. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, NY, 1975.

Poems of Longfellow. Art Type Edition, Books Inc. NY, Rough condition. 

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