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Collected Poems of Lew Sarett
by Sarett, Lew
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
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Moab, Utah, United States
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About This Item
New York: Henry Hold and Company, 1941. First. Hardcover. Good/Good. The Collected Poems of Lew Sarett, Lew Sarett, Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1941, xxviii, 383 pp., 8¾ x 6⅛ inches. First edition, signed copy.
Brown cloth with gilt titling to spine and cover, sunning and shelf wear to spine, rubbing to bottom edge, printer stain to top edge, pages toned, former owner's inside front cover. First edition, signed copy. Good condition. Dust jacket chipped at corners and edges, missing piece head of spine, price clipped and clipped at all corners inside cover in protective mylar. Good condition.
Lew Sarett was a poet, lecturer, philosopher, and teacher. With a foreword here by Carl Sandburg, American poet, biographer, journalist and editor who won two Pulitzer Prizes for his poetry has this to say: Sarett " brings wisdom of things silent and things garrulous to his book. Old men with strong heads and shrewd slow tongues, young men with tough feet, the wishing song of mate for mate - they are here. The loam and the lingo, the sand and the syllables of North America are here 'The Collected Poems of Lew Sarett' says Yes.
Brown cloth with gilt titling to spine and cover, sunning and shelf wear to spine, rubbing to bottom edge, printer stain to top edge, pages toned, former owner's inside front cover. First edition, signed copy. Good condition. Dust jacket chipped at corners and edges, missing piece head of spine, price clipped and clipped at all corners inside cover in protective mylar. Good condition.
Lew Sarett was a poet, lecturer, philosopher, and teacher. With a foreword here by Carl Sandburg, American poet, biographer, journalist and editor who won two Pulitzer Prizes for his poetry has this to say: Sarett " brings wisdom of things silent and things garrulous to his book. Old men with strong heads and shrewd slow tongues, young men with tough feet, the wishing song of mate for mate - they are here. The loam and the lingo, the sand and the syllables of North America are here 'The Collected Poems of Lew Sarett' says Yes.
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- Bookseller
- Stellar Books & Ephemera, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 614
- Title
- Collected Poems of Lew Sarett
- Author
- Sarett, Lew
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Publisher
- Henry Hold and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1941
- Keywords
- Poetry, Lew Sarett
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