When to the common rest that crowns our days, Called in the noon of life, the good man goes, Or full of years, and ripe in wisdom, laysHis silver temples in their last repose;When, o'er the buds of youth, the death-wind blows, And blights the fairest; when our bitter tearsStream, as the eyes of those that love us close, We think on what they were, with many fearsLest goodness die with them, and leave the coming yea
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When to the common rest that crowns our days, Called in the noon of life, the good man goes, Or full of years, and ripe in wisdom, laysHis silver temples in their last repose;When, o'er the buds of youth, the death-wind blows, And blights the fairest; when our bitter tearsStream, as the eyes of those that love us close, We think on what they were, with many fearsLest goodness die with them, and leave the coming yea
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Seller's Description:
Very Good in Very Good jacket. Special ed. Very good or better in very good dustwrapper. Book has lightly yellowed pages. Slip cover has a few chips missing. 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 for more detailed condition information.
Publisher:
New York. : The Heritage Press. (1947).
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
8345609032
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Seller's Description:
Engravings by Thomas W. Nason. Fine in Very Good jacket. Book Small quarto, hardcover, fine in near fine slipcase. Collectible. Appears to be made like a limited editions copy with fine cloth binding, beautiful illustration engravings. Frontispeice portrait engraving. The illustrations are printed in ivory and black instead of black and white A bargain for this fantastic book. From "The American Poets" series. 298 pp. five sections: Thanatopsis and Other Poems; The Death of Flowers and Other Poems; Later Poems; Humns Written at Various Times; and Appendix: Early and Uncollected Poems.
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Thomas Nason. Foxing to endpapers and very light to title and colophon pages; typical mild offsetting of illustrations to text. Rubbing to the spine with loss of color and minor loss of leather. Good, lacking the slipcase. Large octavo (7" x 10-1/2") bound in full black sheepskin leather with gilt lettering. Selected and edited with a commentary by Louis Untermeyer. Illustrated with lovely wood engravings by Thomas Nason, perhaps best known for his illustrations of several of Robert Frost's books. Copy #323 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page.
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Very Good. Collector's Edition. Fully-bound in richly coloured hand-cut leather. Raised bands and gilt lettering on spine; 22-karat gilt decoration on spine and boards. Marbled endpapers, matching sewn-in bookmark and all edges gilt.
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Thomas Nason. Typical mild offsetting of illustrations to text. Rubbing to the spine with loss of leather in at the spine ends and on the spine. Good in a Near Fine slipcase. Large octavo (7" x 10-1/2") bound in full black sheepskin leather with gilt lettering. Selected and edited with a commentary by Louis Untermeyer. Illustrated with lovely wood engravings by Thomas Nason, perhaps best known for his illustrations of several of Robert Frost's books. Copy #1420 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page.