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Strong, L. A. G. (ed.).. The Best Poems of 1924.. Boston: Small, Maynard & Co., 1924.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 8vo. 218 pp., Good, Blue Cloth, previous owner's name inked in frontispiece, edge wear, shelf-wear.
Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Stated Second Printing, April 1924. Includes the poem "Chapter Heading" by Ernest Hemingway - one of the author's first times in print. Navy full-cloth boards, gilt border, cover and spine titles, lt. shelf wear. Pages fine. Small, Maynard colophon at title page w/motto "Scire Quod Sciendum" - short for Knowledge which is Worth Having". Bind fine; hinges intact. Edited and selected by L. Strong, author of "Dublin Days". Contributors include Hemingway, William Carlos Williams, Nancy Cunard, Robert Frost, E. E. Cummings, Thomas Hardy, D. H. Lawrence, and Wallace Stevens (To The One Of Fictive Music), et al. Hemingway's second book appearance and first w/poetry. Includes an Index of First Lines. Printed in United States of America. Printed by the Murray Printing Co., and bound by the Boston Bookbinding Co. of Cambridge, Mass. Small vintage owner's plate of Francis B. Greene inside bk. cover. 225 pages. Insured post. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: The BiblioFile, Rapid River, MI, U.S.A.
STRONG, L.A.G., editor. The Best Poems of 1924. Small, Maynard and Company, Boston, 1924.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Slight soiling to the front board, else fine, without a dustwrapper. Signed by contributors Joseph Auslander (twice), Stephen Vincent Benet, Alfred Kreymborg, Leonora Speyer, and Louis Untermeyer at their contributions.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
STRONG, L.A.G., edited by. The Best Poems of 1923. Small, Maynard & Company, Boston, 1924.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Second printing. Decorative blue cloth stamped in gilt. Slight edgewear and toning else near fine in a very good dustwrapper with chips and spotting. Contributors include Ernest Hemingway, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Nancy Cunard, Robert Frost, and many others. Hemingway's second book appearance.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
STRONG, L. A. G. (ed.). The Best Poems of 1923.. Small, Maynard & Company, Boston, 1924.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: xx, 225 pp. 12mo, publisher's gilt blue cloth in dust jacket. First edition. 1924 ink ownership signature; otherwise a beautiful fine copy in a jacket with the tiniest of chips at the tips of the corners and a few slight scuffs to the spine.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.