Snyder Franklin B (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. No Dust Jacket. Reprint. 1245 pages; Signed by Not signed; Brown cloth. There is very light rubbing along the spine. Notes penciled on front and back board papers and end pages. Very light peciling of notations in margins on some pages. Spine is straight, binding is secure.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Good No dust jacket as issued. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket As Issued. 1st Edition. Third Printing. The anthology covers American poetry and prose spanning from the colonial era through the early 20th century, broken down into major sections: (1) The Beginnings of America: Works by early colonial figures like John Smith, John Winthrop, Anne Bradstreet, Nathaniel Ward, Cotton Mather, and Samuel Sewall. (2) The Struggle for Independence: Writings from the Revolutionary and founding era, including Benjamin Franklin, Patrick Henry, Thomas Paine, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and John Adams. (3) The Literature of the New Nation: 19th-century expansion and Romanticism, featuring Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, William Cullen Bryant, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Walt Whitman, and Emily Dickinson. (4) Recent and Contemporary Poetry/Prose: Selections extending up to the 1920s, including Amy Lowell, Edgar Lee Masters, Carl Sandburg, Sara Teasdale, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Robert Frost. Covers lightly worn, pages age-toned, else very good; text block tight and square pages supple. GOOD. Thick 8vo 8" to 9" tall. 1245 pages.…