Garden City, New York: Doubleday Doran & Company, 1928 Garden City, New York: Doubleday Doran & Company, 1928 151 pp. "Love Sonnets of a Caveman" plus "Ballads of Prohibition" and other poems. Text is clean, tight and unmarked, lightly yellowed. previous owner's name on flyleaf. Another Marquis poem, "Mother's Home Again," is clipped from the New Yorker and pasted after the final page. B&W line drawings in text and cartoons on endpapers. Blue cloth boards with orange pastedown title are "good." Spine is faded and has the start of a split, corners bumped and it looks like a cocktail glass may have sat briefly on the front board. This title is hard to find. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Stated First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Hay, Stuart.. Stated First Edition.. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Hay, Stuart.

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Bookseller: Catron Grant Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 000974
Title: Love Sonnets of a Caveman and Other Verses
Author: Marquis, Don
Illustrator: Hay, Stuart
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Edition: Stated First Edition.
Publisher: Doubleday Doran & Company
Place of Publication: Garden City, New York
Date Published: 1928
Keywords: POETRY
Bookseller catalogs: The Twenties and Thirties;

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