Bow of Burning Gold (Signed, Limited)
by ROOT, E[dward] Merrill
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- Signed
- first
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Chicago: Robert Packard & Company, 1929. First, Limited Edition. First printing. One of an unspecified number of signed copies in the limited first edition. Octavo (23cm). Leather-backed patterned paper boards; 171pp. Tight, clean copy with a bit of fading to boards at margins, mild rubbing to board edges, with corner tips just exposed; Very Good or better, lacking the presumed dustwrapper.
The second published collection by the prolific American poet, long-time professor of literature at Earlham College and, from the McCarthy era on, a political conservative in the neofascist mold, with proficiencies in red-baiting, faculty-cleansing, and textbook-banning. He is credited as a co-founder, with William F. Buckley and others, of the conservative journal National Review, which he left in the early Sixties to join the upstart John Bircher mouthpiece American Opinion. As an undergraduate, Root studied with Robert Frost at Amherst, showing early promise and winning backhanded praise from Frost, who called him "the second best poet in America;" but by the end (in 1973), his reputation as a political gadfly had far outstripped his reputation as a poet.
The second published collection by the prolific American poet, long-time professor of literature at Earlham College and, from the McCarthy era on, a political conservative in the neofascist mold, with proficiencies in red-baiting, faculty-cleansing, and textbook-banning. He is credited as a co-founder, with William F. Buckley and others, of the conservative journal National Review, which he left in the early Sixties to join the upstart John Bircher mouthpiece American Opinion. As an undergraduate, Root studied with Robert Frost at Amherst, showing early promise and winning backhanded praise from Frost, who called him "the second best poet in America;" but by the end (in 1973), his reputation as a political gadfly had far outstripped his reputation as a poet.
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- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 80886
- Title
- Bow of Burning Gold (Signed, Limited)
- Author
- ROOT, E[dward] Merrill
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First, Limited Edition
- Publisher
- Robert Packard & Company
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 1929
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Poetry; Conservatism;
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...