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The Songs You Hear No More.

Price: $190.00

Seller ID: anonymous-thelonesomecowboy.190noplace,nopublish

No place, no publisher, no year, but about 1932. Blue printed wrappers, cover title, 32 pages, two half-tone portraits - a country musician and a cowboy. About 56 country/western/blues lyrics. Cited by Guy Lawson in "'The Whorehouse Bells Were Ringing' and Other Songs Cowboys Sing", p. 374. He dates it "about 1937" and "this appears to be a songbook mailed by a border radio performer". The performer is named in a flier issued by a border radio station, Estacion Radio Difusoria XER, in 1932 - for one dollar The Lonesome Cowboy, a popular performer at the station, will m...
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The Fifteenth Annual Report of the Committee of the Benevolent Fraternity of Churches.

By: Anonymous.

Price: $75.00

Seller ID: anonymous.75boston:(notpublished),printedbyjohnw

Boston: (Not Published), printed by John Wilson, 1849. First edition. Original pale green printed wrappers, 66 pp. A presentation inscription on the front wrapper, to "Rev. Andrews Norton with best respects of the Minister at Large to Bowdoin College". This is all about the Minister at Large program founded in the mid 1820's by Joseph Tuckerman to minister to the poor. Wrappers with toning and a few stains. Rear wrapper detached and chipped with some loss, else Very Good.
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The Indianapolis Archaeological Conference.

By: Archaeological monographs

Price: $40.00

Seller ID: archaeologicalmonographs40washington:nationalres

Washington: National Research Council, no date but probably 1937. Quarter cloth and paper, 82 pp. A symposium upon the archaeological problems of the north central United States. Held in December, 1935. Jesse D. Jennings' copy, he signs on front cover. Spine a bit worn, sunning to edges of wrappers. A Very Good copy.
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Archaeology and Paleoecology of the Western Ozark Highlands.

By: Archaeological Monographs.

Price: $20.00

Seller ID: archaeologicalmonographs.20columbia:universityof

Columbia: University of Missouri, 1969. "Final report to the National Science Foundation". Stapled folder-paper cover, self-title, illustrated, 20 pp. A Very Good copy.
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The Clouds. A Comedy.

By: Aristophanes.

Price: $175.00

Seller ID: aristophanes.175london:printedfort.payne,1759.es

London: Printed for T. Payne, 1759. ESTC shows just one prior publication (1715) of this title in English, and the translator of the present volume, James White, asserts that this version is the first to be printed in its entirety. Contemporary full leather, spine label lacking, elaborately decorated in gilt, marbled endpapers, edges stained red, 179 pp., (A)-B6. In "The Clouds", written in the 5th century B.C., the conservative Aristophanes, who was unhappy with the way Greek society was trending in ethics and philosophy, lampoons Socrates, who represents the Sophists, for his "ba...
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Indian Idylls from the Sanskrit of the Mahabharata.

By: Arnold, Edwin, translator.

Price: $40.00

Seller ID: arnold,edwin,translator.40london:trubner,1883.fi

London: Trubner, 1883. First edition. Original cloth, gilt, decorated in gilt and blind. Attractive book plate of Alexander Wilson. Some soiling, a Very Good copy.
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Cabinet Card photograph of Matthew Arnold.

By: Arnold, Matthew.

Price: $55.00

Seller ID: arnold,matthew.55noimprint,arnoldisabout50.cardi

No imprint, Arnold is about 50. Card is close trimmed, some edge-wear. A Good copy, only.
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Five Uncollected Essays.

By: Arnold, Matthew.

Price: $25.00

Seller ID: arnold,matthew.25(liverpool):unversitypressofliv

(Liverpool): Unversity Press of Liverpool, 1953. Original printed wrappers, 107 pp. The essays are: "A Word About America", "A Word More About America", "Civilisation in the United States", "Sainte-Beuve", "A Liverpool Address". Light soil on rear wrapper, else Fine.
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Selected Poems of Matthew Arnold.

By: Arnold, Matthew.

Price: $35.00

Seller ID: arnold,matthew.35london:macmillan,1882.firstedit

London: Macmillan, 1882. First edition, later printing, the first printing was 1878; these poems were selected by Arnold himself (NCBEL, v.3). Original blue cloth, gilt lettered and decorated, top edge plain, 235 pp., 2 leaves of ads. In the "Golden Treasury Series". Cloth slightly bubbled with light rubbing. Two contemporary ownership markings. A Very Good copy.
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Poems.

By: Arnold, Matthew.

Price: $100.00

Seller ID: arnold,matthew.100intwovolumes,complete.london:m

In Two Volumes, complete. London: Macmillan, 1869. First edition of this collection (NCBEL v.3, 466). Original green cloth, gilt, decorated in gilt. Volume 1, Narrative and Elegiac Poems, V.2 Dramatic and Lyric. Some rubbing to edges, wear at tips. A Very Good copy.
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Poems. A New Edition.

By: Arnold, Matthew.

Price: $600.00

Seller ID: arnold,matthew.600london:longman,brown,green,and

London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1853. With: Poems, Second Series. London: Longman Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855. First editions of both (Colbeck, v.1, pp. 18-19). Uniformly bound in original green cloth, gilt, decorated in blind, printed brick-red endpapers, ads dated March 31, 1853 in the first, November, 1854 in the second. The first virtually unworn, top edge dusty, some stray stains to the endpapers, a Fine copy; the second with light wear to the spine ends, ink stains to the verso of the free endpaper, slightly cocked, a Very Good copy, with an unusual printed bookplate - ...
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The Strayed Reveller, and Other Poems.

By: Arnold, Matthew.

Price: $450.00

Seller ID: arnold,matthew.450london:b.fellowes,1849.firsted

London: B. Fellowes, 1849. First edition. Original green cloth, gilt, decorated in blind, 128 pp. "The title poem derives from an episode in the 'Odyssey' and is strongly influenced by the German poet Heinrich Heine whom Arnold in a later essay was to describe as having 'an extraordinary delicacy of organisation and susceptibility to impressions'" (Murray, "A Life of...", 1997, p.95), but Arnold was actually writing about French poet Maurice de Guerin (in "Essays in Criticism", 1865.). Penciled ownership dated 1850, with a few penciled annotations in the same hand - ...
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Maurice de Guerin.

By: Arnold, Matthew.

Price: $125.00

Seller ID: arnold,matthew.125portland,maine:thomasb.mosher,

Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, 1903. First edition thus. Original printed jacket over card stock covers, 76 pp. printed on japan vellum, one of 425 copies. This first appeared in Fraser's Magazine, January 1863. It was reprinted in "Essays in Criticism", 1865, and again as a preliminary essay in "The Journal of Maurice de Guerin", New York, 1867 (see below). A little toning and smudging to the jacket, Very Good. With: Maurice de Guerin, "The Centaur and the Bacchante. Two Prose Poems". Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, 1897. Stated second Mosher edition, one of 425...
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Poems.

By: Arnold, Matthew.

Price: $110.00

Seller ID: arnold,matthew.110boston:ticknorandfields,1856.f

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1856. First edition thus (NCBEL v.3, 466). Original brown cloth, gilt, decorated in blind, 336 pp. Pages 329-332 are misnumbered 229-232, as occurs "in some copies" (Tryon and Charvat, 1949, B170b). Rubbing, especially along the spine edges, producing several tiny holes. A little bowed. Light damp stain through p.17. Some quires roughly opened. A Good, sound copy.
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The Strayed Reveller, and Other Poems.

By: Arnold, Matthew.

Price: $275.00

Seller ID: arnold,matthew.275london:b.fellowes,1849.firsted

London: B. Fellowes, 1849. First edition (Smart, 6). Contemporary full black morocco, gilt lettered and decorated, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, 128 pp. Some wear, top of spine slightly pulled, but a Very Good copy.
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Poems. A New Edition.

By: Arnold, Matthew.

Price: $250.00

Seller ID: arnold,matthew.250london:longman,brown,green,and

London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1853. First edition (Colbeck, v.1, p.18; Smart 8). Original green cloth, gilt, decorated in blind, printed yellow endpapers, 248 pp., ads dated March 31, 1853. There are nine new poems in this edition, including ""Sohrab and Rustum" and "The Scholar Gypsy". With a 19th century gift inscription, a binder's sticker (Westleys) and an early bookseller's sticker (A. Bolton, 19 Nassau Street, Dublin). Just a little wear, spine slightly sunned. A Fine copy.
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Poems.

By: Arnold, Matthew.

Price: $80.00

Seller ID: arnold,matthew.80london:macmillan,1877.intwovolu

London: Macmillan, 1877. In two volumes, complete. This is Smart, 16, the second collected edition, "New and Complete", omitting one poem from the first collected edition of 1869 (Smart, 15), adding several poems from earlier volumes, and adding one new poem not appearing in book form until now. Light rubbing and bumping, endpapers cracking in v.2. A Very Good copy.
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On the Study of Celtic Literature.

By: Arnold, Matthew.

Price: $135.00

Seller ID: arnold,matthew.135london:smith,elder,1867.firste

London: Smith, Elder, 1867. First edition (Smart 53). Original reddish/brown cloth, gilt lettered, decorated in gilt and blind, beveled edges, 181 pp., the last leaf (12-4) two pages of ads. In poetry and critical prose, he (Matthew Arnold) introduced a new, subtle, comparative attitude to central problems in Western society and culture, and helped to form the modern consciousness. An understanding of him is really more useful to us than an understanding of any other Englishman of the last century. (Park Honan, Matthew Arnold, A Life, 1981, p.vii. Park Honan (was) an American biographer whose...
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Carte de Visite (CDV) Photograph of Matthew Arnold.

By: Arnold, Matthew.

Price: $95.00

Seller ID: arnold,matthew.95imprintofelliottandfry,withasma

Imprint of Elliott and Fry, with a small London Stereoscopic sticker under that imprint. Bust portrait, Arnold is about 50, looking to his left, a pendant hanging over his waistcoat. All edges of the card are trimmed close. A Fine example.
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The Mother.

By: Arthur, T.S. Timothy Shay.

Price: $32.50

Seller ID: arthur,t.s.timothyshay.32.50philadelphia:h.f.ann

Philadelphia: H.F. Anners, (1849). First edition, later printing, unknown date. Original red cloth, gilt lettered, decorated in gilt and blind, 141 pp., 14 page publisher's catalogue inserted in the back. Nearly unworn, spine slightly sunned. Very Good.
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