Yale Verse [from cover: Yale Verse 1898-1908]
by [SINCLAIR LEWIS] MOSES, Robert and Carl H.P. Thurston, eds
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- first
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
New Haven: Yale Publishing Company, 1908. First Edition. First printing. Small octavo; blue cloth gilt; xii,192pp. Titling just a shade dulled on spine, else a tight, clean, Near Fine copy, lacking the dustwrapper. First book publication of Sinclair Lewis [as "H.S. Lewis"], following numerous magazine appearances. Edited (and with a contribution by) Robert Moses, who graduated Yale in 1909 and went on to become a hugely influential figure in New York City urban planning.
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- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 63654
- Title
- Yale Verse [from cover: Yale Verse 1898-1908]
- Author
- [SINCLAIR LEWIS] MOSES, Robert and Carl H.P. Thurston, eds
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Yale Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- New Haven
- Date Published
- 1908
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Poetry; Modern Fiction;
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Lorne Bair Rare Books
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- Dustwrapper
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- Fine
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- Tight
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- First Edition
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- Cloth
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- Spine
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