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The Youth of Old Age
by Brigham, Johnson [compiler]
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Savage, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Marshall Jones Company, 1934. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED and INSCRIBED by the author on the front free endpage: "To my dear friends Genev[???] and Forest / The Author. Johnson Brigham June 19.1934." Includes a selection of quotations about aging from over 200 noteable people (mostly authors) including: Matthew Arnold, Elizabeth Barrett (Browning), Hilaire Belloc, William Blake, Chaucer, Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Thomas Jefferson, Sir William Rothenstein, Rembrandt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Walt Whitman. Red cloth boards with gilt title to spine. Light spotting and scuffing to spine and boards. Offsetting to endpages, else clean interior. Literary Anthology. LIT/110512.
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- Bookseller
- The Kelmscott Bookshop
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 26320
- Title
- The Youth of Old Age
- Author
- Brigham, Johnson [compiler]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Marshall Jones Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1934
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About the Seller
The Kelmscott Bookshop
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Savage, Maryland
About The Kelmscott Bookshop
Our bookshop is open by appointment only in Historic Savage Mill. We specialize in artists' books, private press, William Morris, and general rare and antique books.
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