Sonnets of a Sorehead. (From the library of George Goodspeed)
by Hollis Randolph Thayer-Smith; [George Talbot Goodspeed]
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Wilmington, Delaware, United States
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About This Item
Cambridge: The Pessimistic Society, 1925. 51, [3]pp. 6 x 5 inches. Near fine in original printed wrappers.
Owned by the venerable proprietor of Goodspeed's with his illustrated bookplate. Privately-printed and pseudonymously-written (by Goodspeed, even?) collection of humorous verse: "Harvard's perennial satirist got into action yesterday, when he circulated around the square hundreds of small paper covered volumes entitled "Sonnets of a Sorehead," taking a number of lusty but good humored swats at many prominent figures of the University, from President Lowell and Professor Baker to the statue of John Harvard, and the Crimson." (from the Harvard Crimson, 1925) Not to be confused with a similarly-titled book written in 1908 by James P. Haverson. First and sole edition; quite scarce.
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- Bookseller
- Ian Brabner, Rare Americana (ABAA) (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3732869
- Title
- Sonnets of a Sorehead. (From the library of George Goodspeed)
- Author
- Hollis Randolph Thayer-Smith; [George Talbot Goodspeed]
- Book Condition
- Used
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- 1
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Ian Brabner, Rare Americana (ABAA)
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Ian Brabner, Rare Americana (ABAA)
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