Author: KRONENBERGER, LOUIS (EDITOR)
Title: An Anthology of Light Verse: From the Sixteenth Century to the Present Era (Modern Library #48. 2)
Description: New York: The Modern Library / Random House, [c.1947]. Hardcover. A collection of "light-hearted verse" in a Modern Library edition. The poems are selected by Louis Kronenberger from the works of such notables as Shakespeare, Millay, Kipling, Swift, Huxley, Chesterton and many others. With an introduction by Kronenberger and an index of authors. --- In Toledano spine 8 / green cloth / gilt titling on black spine & cover blocks / black topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style h, verso advertises 329 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1947 (though 1935 date appears in book). ML #48.2. --- A very nice copy: clean, tightly-bound and unmarked but with prior owner's penciled signature, dulling to cover gilding and lightly age-toned leaves. Price-clipped dust jacket with a tear to head of spine, other light chipping and chafing to edges, else in good shape and protected in removable archival mylar protector.; 12mo (7 to 7-1/2 in. tall); xxv, 291 pages. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket .
Keywords: >>Modern Library Editions >>Poetry
Title: An Anthology of Light Verse: From the Sixteenth Century to the Present Era (Modern Library #48. 2)
Description: New York: The Modern Library / Random House, [c.1947]. Hardcover. A collection of "light-hearted verse" in a Modern Library edition. The poems are selected by Louis Kronenberger from the works of such notables as Shakespeare, Millay, Kipling, Swift, Huxley, Chesterton and many others. With an introduction by Kronenberger and an index of authors. --- In Toledano spine 8 / green cloth / gilt titling on black spine & cover blocks / black topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style h, verso advertises 329 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1947 (though 1935 date appears in book). ML #48.2. --- A very nice copy: clean, tightly-bound and unmarked but with prior owner's penciled signature, dulling to cover gilding and lightly age-toned leaves. Price-clipped dust jacket with a tear to head of spine, other light chipping and chafing to edges, else in good shape and protected in removable archival mylar protector.; 12mo (7 to 7-1/2 in. tall); xxv, 291 pages. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket .
Keywords: >>Modern Library Editions >>Poetry
Price: US$ 13.50 Seller: Bluebird Books
- Book number: 85121
- Book number: 85121