Autolycus Leonard Bacon (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. See photos for condition details. Hardcover, blue cloth boards with red label on spine. The exterior cloth shows spotting to edges and spine, mainly loss to the finish. Edges and corners show bumps/wear. The internal binding is good and text pages are tight. It appears the book was never fully red as the majority the pages are still uncut. There are one or two quadrants in the front, around the dedication page but the majority of them start at about page 121. No signatures or bookplates, no library markings, no handwriting found. There is some light foxing and spotting present, though this is mainly limited to the end pages and pastedowns. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Second Printing. Clean book with slight toning; blindstamp and name to front endpaper; in blue cloth with word title pasted to spine. .; 292 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Alfred A. Knopf, 1923., 1923. 1st edition, 2nd printing 292pp, V Good condition, hardcover, no dust jacket. Navy blue cloth boards lightly worn.Red spine label rubbed at the edges, red dyed top edgesand small areas spotted. No inscriptions, some tanning to endpapers, otherwise contents clean, no tears or creases, no markings. The entire story is indeed written as an epic poem.The Sphinx and the Chimaera. Part One: Ulug Beg an Epic Poem, Comic in Intention, in VII Cantos : Being the History of the Origin, Progress, and Explosion of a Superstition. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Inscribed by Leonard Bacon to Henry Seidel Canby, a critic, edition, and Yale professor. Boards are in fine condition. Spine label rubbed. Offsetting to eps. Foxing from front flyleaves up to Table of Contents page as well as final few pages, otherwise pages are clean. Leonard Bacon He won the 1941 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his satiric poems Sunderland Capture. Signed by Author(s).…