[Rarebooks] Unusual ballads, jingles and other verse

Gil Mott gilmott at snet.net
Wed Dec 8 22:30:25 EST 2004


1.  Gilder, Richard Watson. The Great Remembrance and Other Poems. New York:
Century, 1893. Covers soiled, light edgewear.  Interior clean, tight.  87
pp. Hardbound. Very Good/no DJ.  (27750) $150.00

2.  Johnston, Stanley Fields. Johnston's Jingles. Boston: Popular
Publishers, 1955. First General Abridged Edition. No DJ.  Green cloth
soiled, spotted.  Interior tight and clean.  Signed by author, with lengthy
inscription.  "400 poems and subpoems".  Poems on sex, growing old, racial
attitudes, politics, many other topics - cash prize offered for best essay
on your favorite poem (deadline Aug. 31, 1956.) Hardbound. Good.  (11852)
$100.00

3.  Lazarus, A.L. Entertainments & Valedictions; Satires, Songs, & Parodies.
Chicago: Windfall Press, 1970. First printing. Inscribed and signed by
author.  DJ soiled, small tear, spine title smudged.  Book tight and clean.
64 pp. Hardbound. Very Good in Good DJ.  (21952) $50.00

4.  Perkins, Silas H. On Shore Ballads. Portland: Falmouth Book House, 1937.
No DJ.  Cloth sunned.  Poems. Hardbound. Good.  (11478) $100.00

5.  "W.H.C.". Leaves of Spring Gathered in Autumn. Lippincott, 1883. Brown
cloth worn at extremities.  Gilt print still bright.  Some toning to pages,
1 creased and partly torn.  Else tight and clean.  "Leaves scattered abroad
during the life of the Author, and affectionately gathered and bound
together as a memento."  Poems, many suggested by then-current events
(Mexican War, Jenny Lind concert).  134 pp. Hardbound. Very Good/no DJ.
(22305) $100.00

6.  [William Cory] Anon.
. Ionica. London: George Allen , 1891. Cloth soiled, light edgewear.
Yellowed clippings on author folded in, have caused tanning to prelims and
contents page.  Else clean, tight.  210 pp. Hardbound. Very Good/no DJ.
(27458) $55.00


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