Language: English
Published by Bobbs-Merrill, Indianapolis, 1929
Seller: Shadetree Rare Books, Chatham, VA, U.S.A.
Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Numbered. First Edition, No. 1370 of 1500 copies. Striking yellow and black patterned boards. Book is VG, though corners have normal bumps and rubs. Inscribed to Charleston author Josephine Pinckney: "For Josephine, from Bob, with much affection." Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Inscribed by Author(s).
NATHAN. Robert. A CEDAR BOX AND OTHER POEMS. Foreword by Louis Untermeyer. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, [1929]. Sm. 8vo., cloth & patterned boards. Limited to 1,500 numbered copies. This copy with a signed inscription by Nathan on the limitation page to novelist Edna Frederikson and bearing her small nameplate on the front pastedown. Very Good (corners bit rubbed or worn, some browning to gutters pp. 42-43). $75.00.
Published by Bobbs-Merrill, Indianapolis, 1929
Seller: Riverrun Books & Manuscripts, ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. With a foreword by Louis Untermeyer. 8vo. Original decorated cloth-backed boards, paper label, untrimmed. First edition of this book of poetry, limited to 1500 numbered copies, of which this is Copy No. 1 and also the dedication copy. 'A Cedar Box' is dedicated: "For A. N. M. and The Doctor." Right beneath this printed dedication Nathan has written: "With the poet's best love Bob." The dedicatees were Nathan's aunt, the writer Annie Nathan Meyer, and her husband. Nathan is best known for the novel 'Portrait of Jennie' (1940), considered a classic of fantasy fiction, which was made into a movie starring Jennifer Jones and Joseph Cotton. Laurence A9; Merle Johnson, p. 391. (BA). Slight rubbing at extremities.