"The Sirens mean Romance. They awaken that restive yearning within the heart which practical wisdom strives to quell. They disenchant from the governable life with its gregarious ease and communicable satisfactions. They incite to the sole adventure; they promise a reward remote from the smiling continent of pleasures, isled in pain, attained and lost alone. They promise joy, the stress and puissance, which carries the soul out to the great verges, and holds her in ecstasies of incredible life." -- Viewpoints in ...
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"The Sirens mean Romance. They awaken that restive yearning within the heart which practical wisdom strives to quell. They disenchant from the governable life with its gregarious ease and communicable satisfactions. They incite to the sole adventure; they promise a reward remote from the smiling continent of pleasures, isled in pain, attained and lost alone. They promise joy, the stress and puissance, which carries the soul out to the great verges, and holds her in ecstasies of incredible life." -- Viewpoints in Essays
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Very Good. Second edition. Blue paper boards with gilt decorations. Introduction by William Marion Reedy. Spine faded with cracked and chipped joints, very good. One of 450 copies on Van Gelder paper.
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Good. Good 2nd ed. Spine splitting. Little brown spots on cover. 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.
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Very good. No DJ. Second edition, one of only 450 copies. In cardboard, very worn and stained, slipcase. Lightly read. A foxing mark here and there in the margins (less than 10 pages). Paperclip mark to top page edges of front free page and title page. Touch of sunning to front cover front edge. Some sort of half circle mark on the center of the spine that wraps from one side to the other. Barely visible. Perhaps a price sticker was once there. No markings in book. Binding is tight.
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Clean pages, tight binding, clot. Sirenica by W Compton Leith with an introduction by William Marion Reedy. Limited edition of 450 copies on hand-made paper published by Thomas Bird Mosher in Portland, ME 1915. Clean pages, tight binding, cloth boards bright with two small stains to rear board.