Christopher Columbus and Other Patriotic Verses
New York: Viking Press, 1931. Hardcover. First edition. Slight bump to the foredge, still fine in very good dustwrapper with two small chips on the front panel. Scarce in jacket. More
New York: Viking Press, 1931. Hardcover. First edition. Slight bump to the foredge, still fine in very good dustwrapper with two small chips on the front panel. Scarce in jacket. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1912. Hardcover. Very good hardcover. Nameplate on front endpaper. Text clean. Corners on cover slightly rubbed. Spine on cover lightly faded. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire..... More
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1912. Hardcover. First edition. About fine in a slightly soiled, very good or better dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author: "To Carrie Wright from hers lovingly, F.P.A. April 18, 1916." Humorous verse, including several on baseball, most notably "Baseball's Sad Lexicon". Adams's second book, scarce..... More
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1912. Hardcover. First edition. Green cloth. Spine gilt a little tarnished, very good or better, lacking the dustwrapper. Humorous verse, including several on baseball, most notably "Baseball's Sad Lexicon" that begins: "These are the saddest of possible words: 'Tinkers to Evers to Chance'". Adams's..... More
NY/London: Whittlesey House, 1942. Hardcover. Fourth edition. Very good, book has slight rubbing of spine and corners of cover, slight fading of cover, minor aging of pages. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards..... More
New York: Whittlesey House, (1944). Hardcover. Fifth printing. Offsetting to half-title from a clipping, else fine in very good, price-clipped dustwrapper with a modest chip on the front panel. More
Garden City: Doubleday, Page, 1923. Hardcover. First edition. Good. Hardcover rubbed at spine ends and worn corners, cover and foredges soiled, spine and pages browned, brown spotting on foredges. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our..... More
New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1923. Softcover. First edition. Quarter cloth and printed paper over boards. Bookplate of Lewis E. Gensler on the front pastedown, dampstains on the front board, thus fair only without dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author: "To Lewis E. Gensler with the loving admiration of –..... More
New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1911. Hardcover. Later. Very good plus. Hardcover, pictorial boards, rubbed at spine ends and corners, cover and foredges soiled, pages lightly browned. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual..... More
New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1912. Hardcover. First edition. Very good. Hardcover, cover and foredges soiled, rubbed at spine ends and corners, corners bumped, pages very lightly browned. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our..... More
New York: Whittlesey House, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., (1942). Hardcover. Fourth printing. Tall octavo. 523pp. Green cloth lettered in gilt. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with a few very small closed tears. A very nice copy. More
New York: Whittlesey House / McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., (1944). Hardcover. First edition. Small stain on foredge else very near fine in attractive very good or better dustwrapper with some tiny nicks and tears. A handsome copy. More
New York: McGraw Hill Book Co., 1942. Hardcover. Fourth edition. Very good. Hardcover lightly rubbed at spine ends and corners, cover and foredges lightly soiled, bookplate. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please..... More
Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing, 1945. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover rubbed at spine ends and corners, cover and foredges soiled, spine and pages lightly browned. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire..... More
New York: Whittlesey House, (1942). Hardcover. First edition. Gilt-stamped green cloth. Owner's bookplate on front pastedown, corners bumped, very good lacking the dustwrapper. Contributors include Coleridge, Cowper, Donne, Dryden, Gay, Lovelace, Pope, Southey, Swift, Mark Twain, Belloc, Benet, Clarence Day, Margaret Fishback, Dorothy Parker, Phylis McGinley, E.B. White, Vachel Lindsay..... More