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An Anthology of Light Verse: From the Sixteenth Century to the Present Era (Modern Library #48.2)
by KRONENBERGER, Louis (editor)
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Modern Library / Random House. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. [c.1945]. Hardcover. A collection of "light-hearted verse" in a later Modern Library edition. The poems are selected by Louis Kronenberger from the works of such notables as Shakespeare, Millay, Kipling, Swift, Huxley, Chesterton and many others. With an introduction by Kronenberger and an index of authors at rear of volume. ||| In Toledano spine 8 / blue cloth / gilt titling on black spine & cover blocks / black topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style h, verso advertises 304 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1945 (though 1935 date appears in book). ML #48.2. ||| A very nice copy: clean, tightly-bound and unmarked but with inked info. to front paste-down. Unclipped dust jacket with light chipping & rubbing to extremities; else in good shape and protected in removable archival mylar protector.; 12mo (7 to 7-1/2 in. tall); xxv, 291 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 88056
- Title
- An Anthology of Light Verse: From the Sixteenth Century to the Present Era (Modern Library #48.2)
- Author
- KRONENBERGER, Louis (editor)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Publisher
- The Modern Library / Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- [c.1945]
- Bookseller catalogs
- >>Poetry;
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- Good+
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- Rubbing
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- 12mo
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- Chipping
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- Verso
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- Gilt
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