1916 reprint. Illustrated. Pages are clean. A few light stains on inside near hinges. Cover is clean and illustration is bright. Very minimal wear. 124 pages. Size: 7.5"x9.5"
- A Child's Garden of Verses
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- Jesse Wilcox Smith, Illustrator
- Charles Scribner's Son, 1916
Bound in the original brown cloth boards with gilt spine lettering. Some spine wear, stains; bookplate; some foxing. First American edition of Browning's classic work. 366 pages; approx. 5"x7".
- Aurora Leigh
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- C.S. Francis & Co., 1857
- First Edition
Pages and covers are clean and crisp. Cover is green with gilt lettering and decorations, top page edge is gilt as well. Very Good condition. Includes the work of several poets: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry David Thoreau, Louisa May Alcott, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and many more. 306 indexed pages. 4"X6.5"
- The Little Book of American Poets
- Jessie B. Rittenhouse, Ed.
- Houghton Mifflin Company 1915
This is a collection of poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, bound in gilt decorated boards with handsome lettering and design on cover and spine. Book is in good condition with browned pages, stains, edgewear, and soil. 426 indexed pages, 7.5 x 5.
- The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1883
This antique hardcover book (no date of publication given; presumed circa 1890) is bound in red-brown cloth boards, richly decorated with etched black and gilt designs. All page edges gilt. Cover has edgewear. Owner's name on front inner board. Inner pages browned. Binding a bit loose but holding Wear and soil. Black-and-white plates within. Includes an introduction with a biography of Burns. Decorative red borders on pages. 478 pages; approx. 6"x9".
- THE POETICAL WORKS OF ROBERT BURNS
- The American News Co., ca 1890s
This two-volume set is bound in brown cloth boards with gilt spine lettering. Foxing, cover and spine soil; bookplates and inscriptions in both volumes. Includes an introductory essay by Henry T. Tuckerman. Vol. 1 is 312 pages; Vol. 2 is 300 pages. Both approx. 5"x7"
- The Poems of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vols. 1-2
- C.S. Francis & Co., 1854
This antique hardcover book is bound in royal-blue cloth with bright gilt lettering on cover and spine and gilt decorations of laurel wreaths. Edgewear; rear cover stained, front hinge starting, browned pages, wear and soil. Contains a variety of Harte's poems as well as a biographical sketch and 12 indexed captioned engravings. 334 pages, including index of titles; approx. 6"x8".
- THE POETICAL WORKS OF BRET HARTE
- Houghton Mifflin Company, 1904
- Household Edition
This antique hardcover book is bound in green cloth boards with gilt lettering and decorations on the spine and a black and gilt design on the front cover. Cover wear/soil, mostly on spine. Top page edge gilt. Owner's name on front endpaper, some pencil marks within, but most inner pages clean. Light foxing to the foredge, wear and soil. One hundred black-and-white illustrations throughout. 474 pages; approx. 5"x8".
- SELECTIONS FROM THE POETICAL WORKS OF ROBERT BROWNING
- Thomas McIlvaine, illustrator
- Frederick A. Stokes Co., 1892
This antique hardcover book is bound in handsome textured green padded leather boards, with gilt lettering, trim and page edges. Multicolored decorative endpapers. Spine is faded to brown; inner pages clean and unmarked, binding tight. Frontispiece is a portrait of the poet. Includes a biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole. 452 pages; approx. 5"x7".
- JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER'S POETICAL WORKS
- Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1902
This is a collection of poems by Alfred Noyes with and introduction by Hamilton W. Mabie. Book is in good condition with foxing to the foredge, wear and soil. Gilt cover, spine and top edge. 193 pages, 7.5 x 5.
- Poems
- Alfred Noyes
- Macmillan and Co., 1915
