Lord William S Compiler (2 results)

Original Printed Boards. Condition: Good. Later Printing. Spine top worn.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. LORD, William S., compiler. The Best Short Poems of the Nineteenth Century: Being the Twenty-five Best Short Poems as Selected by Ballot by Competent Critics. Chicago, New York and Toronto; London and Edinburgh: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1903. Copyright 1899. Dark cloth-covered boards, upper board decorated and lettered in yellow/gilt and white. Text numbered to p.52. Christmas 1904 gift inscription to front free endpaper. Binding physically confirmed sound and pagination confirmed complete by the seller. Boards rubbed and worn at extremities. Spine cloth considerably worn, split and lifting, with exposed underlying material at head/tail and visible evidence of an older repair or adhesive intervention. Internally generally clean with light age toning and occasional minor wear. No dust jacket present. Exact impression not stated and not confirmed. The work is bibliographically recorded in an earlier 1899 Revell edition, therefore this copy is not described as a first edition. Condition: Good.…