WINE AND PHYSIC: A Poem and Six Essays on the Fate of Our Language. With Decorations by Isabel Lattimore
de Laing, Alexander
- Usado
- Bien
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Good
- Librería
-
Cadyville, New York, United States
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NY: Farrar & Rhinehart Incorporated, (1934).. (1934).. Good. - 8vo, light grayish-green cloth (bumped); titled in gilt on spine with title & decoration in gilt on front cover; in tan dw (price clipped; stained & darkened; chipped at edges with several small tears and small pieces out; tears along folds of front & rear flaps); titled in black with vignette in red. xii & 157pp. (owner's inscription on the front endpaper). Title vignette, headpieces & textual illustrations by Isabel Lattimore. Very good in a fair dw. <p>First edition. "Wine and Physic contains 'The Flowering Thorn,' a long poem of modern philosophic implications, accompanied by six essays which expand and confirm the thought launched in the poem. In 'The Flowering Thorn,' Mr. Laing achieves beauty of expression as well as a new statement of a critical and ethical credo for his generation...." -- From the dw blurb.
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- Librería
- Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd. (US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 22410
- Título
- WINE AND PHYSIC: A Poem and Six Essays on the Fate of Our Language. With Decorations by Isabel Lattimore
- Autor
- Laing, Alexander
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Good
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Editorial
- NY: Farrar & Rhinehart Incorporated, (1934).
- Fecha de publicación
- (1934).
- Palabras clave
- LITERATURE; POETRY; POEM; LITERARY PHILOSOPHY; WINE AND PHYSIC; FLOWERING THORN; ESSAYS; CRITICISM; CRITICAL ESSAY; ALEXANDER LAING; ILLUSTRATIONS; ISABEL LATTIMORE; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION; 20TH CENTURY; TWENTIETH CENTURY.
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Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
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Cadyville, New York
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