Poetry from Trench Books

New York: Franklin Watts, 1954. Fourth Printing . Cloth. Good+/No Jacket. Kathleen Elgin. Binding a bit loose, name inside front cover, a few pencil notations in the text. A collection of eighty or so poems for young people, written by well known poets and writers.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1926. Fourth Printing . Green Cloth. Good+/No Jacket. Moderate wear to covers, stain to lower right back cover, lengthy inscription on flyleaf, otherwise unmarked. Sound copy. "Out of your cage, come out of your cage, and take your soul on a pilgrimage!".

London: W.& R. Chambers. Pictorial Cover. Poor. Generally poor condition; coming apart, a few torn pages, complete. The adventures of "Blobbs", the bulldog, as he travels about, told in verse. Ten color plates by Stokes, approx 9x11", in very good condition.

New York: Oxford Univ, 1929. Hardcover. Fair. Elizabeth Montgomery. Endpapers covered in pencil doodlings, covers edgeworn with faint pencil markings, text clean and unmarked. Nice collection of rhymes.

New York: Charles Scribners Sons, 1907. Tan Cloth. Fair. Covers quite soiled, inscription on flyleaf, half-title page and flyleaf partially detached. Text sound and unmarked. An extensive collection of poems by dozens of different poets, some well known, others not.

S. Windsor, CT: Inspiration House, 1971. First Printing . Yellow Cloth. Very Good+/Good+. Bette Eaton Bossen. Inscription on flyleaf, corner of flyleaf clipped, small red stain to top edge. Jacket shows light soiling, red stain top back. Signed by Abbott and Bossen on the title page. Companion volume to "Come Walk Among the Stars" and "Sing With the… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Charles Scribners Sons, 1903. Brown Cloth. EX-LIBRARY/No Jacket. Library bookplate inside front cover, number written at bottom of page v (no other markings), rear flyleaf missing, spine slightly faded. Nice clean copy, gold top edge

New York: Mason Brothers, 1860. Brown Cloth. Fair/No Jacket. Covers quite worn, titles faded away, messy inscription on flyleaf. Binding is loose but holding together satisfactorily. An extensive collection of poems by Dr. Holcombe (MD), and apparently self-published. Not a bad effort.

New York: Henry Harrison, 1939. Green Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Minimal wear at corners, faint erasure on flyleaf, otherwise clean and unmarked. A collection of several hundred poems, by as many different authors. Volume one.

Los Angeles: Cheval, 1975. First Edition . Trade Paperback. Good+/No Jacket. Wear to edges, one corner of cover creased, sound and unmarked.

New York: Harper & Bros, 1917. First Edition . Brown Hardcover. Very Good+/No Jacket. Minimal wear, nice clean and unmarked copy. Written and illustrated "By the Men of the 1st and 2nd Provisional Training Regiments, Plattsburg, New York, May 15 - August 15 1917". A collection of over sixty poems on subjects of importance to military recruits.… Saber más sobre este artículo

Boston: Small Maynard & Co., 1918. Navy Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Nice copy, showing only light wear at corners and spine ends; clean and unmarked. A small volume containing 120 poems, some by very familiar poets.

Chicago: P.F. Volland, 1911. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Minor wear/soiling to covers, inscription on flyleaf, otherwise a nice copy. Pocket sized book of Christmas poems, probably meant as a Christmas greeting.

London: Heinemann, 1969. Blue Cloth. Very Good/Good. Minimal wear, clean and unmarked. Jacket shows rubbing, edgewear, several cello tape repairs, not price clipped. "Much of your pain is self-chosen".

Chicago: Reilly & Lee. Blue Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket. Trace of rubbing to some boards, clean and unmarked. Navy blue cloth with gold titles, gilt top edge. Various dates, 1916 - 1923. A matched set of six volumes; includes: "A Heap O' Livin'", "Just Folks", "When Day is Done", "Poems of Patriotism", "The Path to Home",… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Doubleday & McClure Co., 1898. Fourth Edition . Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. Wear and yellowing to covers, lower third of spine missing, unmarked. Nicely illustrated collection of poetry by mostly forgotten poets of the past. 146 pgs.

New York: Harcourt Brace. Decorative Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Elizabeth Montgomery. Light wear, foxing to endpapers and some pages, name and date inside front cover. Jacket quite soiled, edgewear, crease to right front. Nice collection of poetry by numerous well-known poets.

London: Hodder & Stoughton. Green Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Light wear to edges, rubbing to covers. Inscribed and initialed by the author on the half-title page; on the reverse, the author wrote out his poem "Moule Rosa" and signed it. Frontispiece B&W photo of Herb, with signature beneath. Not dated; copyright page states: "This, the first collected edition… Saber más sobre este artículo

Hartford: Traveler's Press, 1941. Green Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Light edgewear, clean and unmarked. Slim volume of narrative poems on a wide variety of topics. Possibly published as an insurance company giveaway?

New York: Harcourt Brace. Decorative Cloth. Good+/Fair. Elizabeth Montgomery. Moderate lean, minimal wear, light foxing to many pages, signature and bookplate inside front cover. Jacket worn at edges, soiled, 2x2" chip from bottom front edge.A collection of poems by over 25 various poets, many are well-known.