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The Poetry of Tennyson
by Van Dyke, Henry
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
-
Carrollton, Georgia, United States
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About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1889. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. First Edition. Hardcover. 7 7/8" X 5 1/4" xiii, 296pp. Blue cloth over boards, with upper board stamped in cream and gilt with laurel and fleur-de-lis device. Title label to spine chipped and heavily toned. Heavy scattered rubbing to upper board, chipping to head and tail of spine, and mild edgewear. Front hinge cracked and attached by strings. Title page loose and laid in. First gathering coming loose. Pages are unmarked. Newspaper clipping entitled "A Feeble Clerical Philosopher" laid in, a very critical and lengthy review of a sermon given by Van Dyke at Chicago University entitled "Democracy and Culture." Clipping is in several pieces and very brittle. An admittedly worn but still quite charming first edition of Van Dyke's essays on the poetry of Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Underground Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3123
- Title
- The Poetry of Tennyson
- Author
- Van Dyke, Henry
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1889
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Underground Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2009
Carrollton, Georgia
About Underground Books, ABAA
Underground Books is an online rare and antiquarian bookshop as well as a brick and mortar general bookstore of the same name in downtown Carrollton, Georgia. Sister store Hills & Hamlets Bookshop is located in the nearby planned eco-community of Serenbe.
Co-owners Josh Niesse and Megan Bell met in 2011, just 10 days or so after Josh opened the doors of Underground Books, literally underground, several steps below street level in a 100-year-old basement in our historic downtown. Megan, an English student at the University of West Georgia, walked in, fell down the rabbit hole, and never left! Reader, we married in May of 2014, under the book arch that now resides at the bookshop. We are both proud alumni of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar (CABS), and Megan additionally of Rare Book School at the University of Virginia and of the ABAA Women's Initiative Mentorship Program.
We have two open bookshops that carry new, used, bargain, rare, and antiquarian books, as well as our online office, impossible without our incredible team of booksellers, including two fellow CABS graduates, Miranda McMillan and Suzanne Carnes.
Like many booksellers with open brick-and-mortar stores, we are passionate generalists, but our specialties are in decorative publisher's cloth bindings; fairy tales, folklore, and mythology; popular science and natural history; the occult; and fine press books.
Co-owners Josh Niesse and Megan Bell met in 2011, just 10 days or so after Josh opened the doors of Underground Books, literally underground, several steps below street level in a 100-year-old basement in our historic downtown. Megan, an English student at the University of West Georgia, walked in, fell down the rabbit hole, and never left! Reader, we married in May of 2014, under the book arch that now resides at the bookshop. We are both proud alumni of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar (CABS), and Megan additionally of Rare Book School at the University of Virginia and of the ABAA Women's Initiative Mentorship Program.
We have two open bookshops that carry new, used, bargain, rare, and antiquarian books, as well as our online office, impossible without our incredible team of booksellers, including two fellow CABS graduates, Miranda McMillan and Suzanne Carnes.
Like many booksellers with open brick-and-mortar stores, we are passionate generalists, but our specialties are in decorative publisher's cloth bindings; fairy tales, folklore, and mythology; popular science and natural history; the occult; and fine press books.
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