Robert Peter Tristram Coffin (93 results)

Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Golden Falcon. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condition: Good. First edition copy. . Acceptable dust jacket. Owner's namoe on front endpage. Dust jacket price clipped. (american life, poetry, poems, literature).

Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Christchurch: Poems. Book.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st edition. No dj. Spine and covers faded.; 7.9 X 5.6 X 1.2 inches; 4 pages.

Condition: New.

Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. The Third Hunger: And the Poem Aloud. Book.

Condition: New.

Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. New Poetry of New England: Frost and Robinson. Book.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Good condition, lacking dust jacket. Binding is tight and pages are clean and unmarked. Exterior page edges have some foxing and some soiling (particularly top edge of pages. Cover has some wear and corner bumping.

Condition: New.

First edition (as stated upon copyright page). 266 pages. Hardcover: H 22cm x L 15.25cm. Dust jacket with color pictorial front panel and spine; dj rubbed and soiled; small chips, nicks, and tears at edges with two old brown tape repairs to verso; front flap retains publisher's printed price at bottom right corner. Blue cloth with some mottling; spine and front board's gilt stamping remains fairly bright. Deckle fore-edge. Color illustrated endpapers; personal sextant-themed bookplate of St. Louis physician, naval historian, and author E. Lee Dorsett (Edward Lee Dorsett, 1883-1967) on front pastedown (mostly hidden underneath dj front flap); peeled remnant of different owner's removed bookplate on ffep verso; past owner inexplicably affixed a second dj's trimmed flaps and trimmed front panel on rear flyleaves; interior pages are otherwise clean. Binding is firm.…

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

First edition, first printing (with publisher's requisite statement for latter upon copyright page) SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. xvi, 106 pages. Hardcover. Lacks dust jacket. Gray cloth; sine heel frayed; gilt stamped lettering to spine and front board remains bright. Endpapers toned; personal sextant-themed bookplate of St. Louis physician, naval historian, and author E. Lee Dorsett (Edward Lee Dorsett, 1883-1967) on front pastedown; ink marks on Contents page and at various poem title headings amongst interior text; associated ink note by Dr. Dorsett on page xii citing that the checked poems were read by Prof. Coffin at the St. Louis home of Mrs. Frank Rand[?] on 2/12/41 where presumably the book was signed as well. Author's ink signature upon the front free endpaper. Binding is firm. A Rhodes Scholar, Coffin won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1936.…

Condition: Fair. First edition copy. . No Dust Jacket Book Near Very Good. No dust jacket. Mild shelfwear. Small bump on leading edge of back board. Pastedown stamped "AS-IS." Newspaper book review (Hartford Times, Sept 24, 1938) laid in. Inside clean, binding good. (poetry, criticism, interpretation, New England). …

First edition, first printing (publisher's requisite statement "Published September, 1936 | First Printing" upon copyright page). [8], 307 pages. Hardcover: H 20.25cm x L 14.25cm. Dust jacket rubbed and soiled; small chips, tears, and some bumping/curling at edges; patch of surface abrasion at front panel's top center; broad clipping to front flap's bottom corner but with publisher's price still present at top right. Blue cloth with bright gilt stamping to spine and front board. Muted mustard colored top edge; deckle fore-edge. Personal sextant-themed bookplate of St. Louis physician, naval historian, and author E. Lee Dorsett (Edward Lee Dorsett, 1883-1967) affixed to front pastedown; light toning to endpapers; interior pages are otherwise clean. Binding is firm.…

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo. (22 cm.)277p. Illustrated with delightful black and white woodblock (?) images by Robert P. Tristram Coffin at the beginning of each chapter. Green cloth with gilt letters on the front cover and the spine. Just hints of wear to extremities, two corners very lightly bumped, cloth clean and bright, gilt bright, else near fine to fine with no internal markings. Dust jacket lightly faded and with a few small chips missing here and there. Robert P. Tristram Coffin [1892-1955] was George Elliston Professor of Poetry in the University of Cincinnati. According to the dust jacket, Coffin would probably consider himself to be a Maine man and a poet. In this book he writes about poetry, but also about rural country life. Two chapters deal with his own homeland: The New England Green and Green Maine. Robert P. Tristram Coffin (illustrator).…

Condition: New.

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Hardback or Cased Book. Condition: New. New Poetry Of New England: Frost And Robinson. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Stated First Printing. The book is bound in black cloth with titling in gilt on the spine. It has a musty smell. The corners have small creases. Edges are foxed/dust dulled. Endpapers have age-tanning/light foxing. The pages are age-toned, clean and unmarked. The binding is firm. The price-clipped DJ has soiling, chipping on the edges and missing paper at the ends of the spine panel. It is in a clear plastic protective cover. Scarce title by the Pulitzer Prize winning Maine author.…

Condition: New.