Editor Burton Egbert Stevenson (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Blue cloth binding. The book has the normal library markings and attachments. The front hinge is beginning to crack. The binding has a lot of wiggle to it. The cover has a few small soil spots. 720 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Revised Edition. Ex-library with a few stamps and markings. Red cloth boards with gold lettering on spine. Bumping and edge wear to boards. Binding is tight and square. Pages are clean throughout. A large selection of poetry for youngsters. Pogany, Willy (illustrator).…

Hardback. Condition: Good. 2 volume set, hardcover with jackets, 6th edition 9th printing 1937, jackets a bit tattered, edgewear to the books, previous owners stamp inside covers, no writing or markings otherwise, bindings with plenty of life. inquire for photos or more details. shipped with care. --- A two-volume anthology of poetry in English, edited by Burton Egbert Stevenson, gathering American and British verse across roughly three and a half centuries from the late sixteenth to the early twentieth. The set is divided into seven parts - Youth and Age, Love, Nature, Familiar Verse/Humor/Satire, Patriotism/History/Legend, Sentiment and Reflection, and Sorrow/Death/Immortality - each with sub-topics related to the overall heading. Arrangement is thematic rather than chronological, with the contents laid out by subject in the table of contents. The selection encompasses a range of poetic types - romantic, satiric, serious, humorous - and forms including ballads, quatrains, limericks, and sonnets. Each volume runs to nearly 2000 pages; page numbering continues directly from volume one to volume two, so the first page of poetry in volume two is page 1957. Volume two closes with a comprehensive index of authors, titles, and first lines. …

Hardcover. First Edition. Very Good with no dust jacket; Edgewear. Previous owner's name. ; B&W Illustrations; 388 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Edition, First Thus. Collectible. Text/Near New. Gilt embossed blue linen boards/NF w/rubs & light fraying to corner tips & upper/lower spine. DJ/None. Gilting to upper text edge. Sound but worn front hinge; first blank endpaper loose. PO name pencilled to 2nd fEP. Closed tears to pg 501, and, 2" loss to pg 503 by hinge. Anthology of American history poems collected and edited by author and librarian Burton Egbert Stevenson (1872 - 1962). In assembling this anthology some were included for "its historical or political interest" because it is an expression of its time and place; these verse are often marked by admirable, spontaneous energy. Others, retropective ballads so to speak ("Paul Revere's Ride", for instance), were chosen because of their power to touch the heart and grip the imagination. A fiery protest against clerical oppessors by John Greenleaf Whittier, 1835, reads: "Just God! and these are they/Who minister at thine altar, God of Right!/Men who their hands with prayer and blessing lay/On Israel's Ark of Light!/What! preach, and kidnap men?/Give thanks, and rob thy own afflicted poor?/Talk of thy glorious liberty, and then/Bolt hard the captive's door?" Poems arranged by subject matter & historical sequence; author, first line, and title indices to rear. Strong copy despite flaws.…