Class Poem: First Edition (26 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Fair. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. 51pp. Includes: Class Committee list, "Manhood: A Sermon," Baccalaureate Hymn of the Class of 1867," Order of the Class Day Exercises, Class Oration by John Edwards Leonard, Poem by Charles Sibley Gage, Ode by Edward Jackson Lowell, Class Song, Class Day Officer list. The book is bound in cardboard, with cloth spine and corners. Inside front board has bubbling and former owner notation in pencil. Inside rear board and rear endpaper have light foxing. Last page and second to last endpaper has some foxing. Last ten pages and rear endpaper have a stain, decreases in severity toward the middle of the text block. Edges of boards are rubbed. Edges have a few bumps. Spine ends are bumped and frayed. Boards have heavy scuffs and light scratches. Text is clean and unmarked. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fair/No Dust Jacket.…

No Binding. Condition: New. 1st Edition. Contained in the Fall 2020 issue of The Threepenny Review. This issue of the highly regarded arts and literary quarterly includes writing by, among others, Wendell Berry, T. J. Clark, W. S. Di Piero, Erica X Eisen, Deborah Eisenberg, Stephen Greenblatt, Bert Keizer, Javier Marías, Jill McDonough, Adam Phillips, Robert Pinsky, Charles Simic, Clifford Thompson, Patricia Unterman, and Adam Zagajewski, as well as 18 black-and-white photos by Will Collier.…

Softcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Disbound, no covers. Slight diagonal crease throughout. ; 42 pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Handset in Univers, with display in Uncial. Number 05 of 80 copies printed in black and blue on Sheepstor hand-made paper. Sewn. A very good copy. Signed by Toni Savage. Signed by Author(s).

Three-Quarter Leather. Condition: Fine. None Issued. 1st Edition. This is a Fine copy of the first edition bound in black three-quarter leather over marble boards. The date and title along with the author's name are in gilt on the spine . Two raised bands on the spine. Marble endpapers. 52 pp. The dedication page and pages in the text are fine. It is (apparently) missing the title page - in its place is a typed (mimeographed?) page containing the following : Class Poem : "Some Said, John, print it; others said, Not so; Some said, It might do good; others said,No." Bunyan. Along with a date MDCCCXXXV111. Minor bumps to the corners. A Lovely copy. Rebound in the period.…

Condition: Good. New Haven 1845 first edition. Hamlen. 40p. Original printed octavo wraps. Good plus, some cover soiling and wear; binding secure; no owner marks.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. 12mo. 25pp. Papercovered boards with printed paper label. Near fine. Class poet Conger died while his Class was holding its Reunion.

Original Wraps. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Tan Front Cover Detached. 50 Pgs. Class Day Exercises Ect. Rare.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Very good in original gray wrappers. Rear panel present but nearly detached and creased, smudge on the title-page verso, and soiling and foxing on the extreme left edge of page 36. 42 pages.

Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Near fine. Signed.

Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Near fine. Signed.

JEFFERSON, Floyd W. POEM DEDICATED TO THE CLASS OF 1902 OF YALE UNIVERSITY AT ITS FORTY-FIFTH REUNION JUNE 1947. [No publication information], 1947. 8vo., printed wraps. First Edition. Very Good (little soil covers). $50.00.

First edition. 21 cm. 24pp. Disbound, lacks wrappers. Stamp of the Presbyterian Historical Society on title page. Besides Cooper's "Oration," this pamphlet includes a poem, "Seclusion" by Robert Hooper, and two songs, one by Edward Everett and and one by Nathaniel L. Frothingham. Stoddard and Whitesell 954.…

First edition. Saddle-stapled 16mo in white wrappers printed in black throughout. Unpaginated [20 pp.] Artists' book by Sten Hanson in a calendar format featuring the words 'DAY IN' on versos and 'DAY OUT' on rectos vertically repeated throughout the book. Trace amounts of age toning along cover extremities and two faint indents at lower rear cover, presumably from the trimming process. Near fine.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Blue covers with blind decoration and gilt lettering on the front cover, plain spine is a little darkened, and corners are lightly rubbed. Sound binding, clean pages. Inserted loosely is a 1947 published dialect poem "Owd Bradda Hasna' "Had It" Yet". A local poet tells how Bradwell fared during the great snow-up. Contains black and white illustrations. No dust-jacket. Previous owner's book-plate (Hugh Murray) laid in. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: under 1 kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 50324081067. All our books are sent by tracked mail. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. First edition. Small octavo. Fine in original unprinted glassine dustwrapper, and folding cardboard box which has a light dampstain, but is otherwise about fine. Frontispiece portrait detached but easily reattached. Signed by the author at the conclusion of the poem. Laid in is a four-line poem presenting the book to his "sweetheart". Scarce. *OCLC* locates no copies. Signed.…

Condition: Good. New York 1913 first edition. Knickerbocker Press. Hardcover. square octavo. 13p.Blue cloth with 3/4 black leather . Gilt cover lettering. Good, cover leather worn and rubbed; binding secure; text clean. no dj. Very Scarce.

Leather. Condition: Good. First Edition. 80 + 39 pages; "Astraea." being published in 1850, ".Delivered Before the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Yale College, August 14, 1850"; Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) prolific American essayist, poet and long-time teacher, lecturer of anatomy at Harvard. (DAB), here stating in "Border Lines": ".science is the topography of ignorance."; bound in red pebbled cloth covered boards, red leather spine and corners, gilt ruling, gilt titles and spine compartment floral spray designs, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers; a mid-nineteenth century British leather binding by W. Pratt for H. Stevens, with their stamp on the front endpaper bottom edge; some edge, tips wear to binding; contents in very good condition. …

[TEXAS]. First edition. 7 7/8" x 6" four page brochure that contains a three page poem, written by request, and delivered in the College Hall, Wednesday Evening, June 25th, 1879, to the graduating class of the Palestine Female College. The poem was dedicated to the Teachers of Texas, who have so kindly received that earlier poem 'SHALL WE DIVIDE THE STATE,' with most cordial and fraternal greeting. In 1858 a school to be called Palestine Female Institute was authorized by stock subscription to be built on land donated by Reuben A. Reeves and Paul J. and Mary Simons. In 1873 the Palestine Education Association was formed. Professor A. H. Bailey from Alabama served as principal of the school, which offered literary, music, art, and telegraphic courses to both male and female students. On July 29, 1876, a new charter was obtained, and the name was changed to Palestine Female College. In 1881 in a second election voters approved the transfer of the school property to the public school system. The site of the institute was occupied by the Palestine Junior High School building in 1990. The poem champions the position and responsibilities of a woman. An example stanza states "And so it is, though her beauty charms, Her love, like the sun, the whole earth warms; Though 'frailty's the name of woman,' long Will her virtues live in art and song. Though she is weak, yet her innocence is a tower of strength in her defence; And, dowered with beauty, gifted with love Lifted by purity high above The baser elements of mankind, The noblest work of her heart and mind Is to reach down from her peerless height, Strong in the armor of Truth and Right, Into the depths of suffering where Humanity struggles in its despair. Into the darkness, the gloom of night, Where wickedness triumphs o'er might and right - And to hold out in warning and command A pardoning, helping, winning hand. In vain may Morality preach and teach Where law nor society never can reach, In vain may reformers cry 'Reform!' And philanthropists raise an entreating arm; The work to be done is the work of years, By woman's patience, and toil and tears; This, grandest work of our times and land, Is to be the work of woman's hand." This brochure was, until March 1, 1949, in the estate of Ike Moore. Edges uniformly browned, small closed tear to front and rear covers else a good copy.…

Faux Crocodile Wraps. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 8vo. 19 by 17.5 cm. Unpaginated, six leaves. Title page, 7 page long poem. The author, MacGregor Jenkins (1869-1940) was an author probably best known, to the extent he is known today, as a friend and neighbor of Emily Dickinson -- he was from Amherst originally. Scarce -- we could find no other copies of this publication. It has an attractive faux crocodile cover, and it was produced with better paper as well. We have seen other such bindings from the period; this copy's cover is a well-preserved example, excepting that the rear cover was obviously once pasted into an album, and there are still vestiges of the green paper onto which it was mounted, and a few tiny spots somewhat raw from the removal of the green paper that stuck to our cover. The brown coloration has a little unevenness now as well, but we stand by our judgment that this is quite a good example.…

Hardcover. First Edition. Printed wraps, 5-1/2" x 6-15/16"; 4 pages with the title on the first page and the poem on the following three pages. First edition of the author's first separately published work. About 600 copies were printed and distributed to the Class Day audience at Yale University on 21 June 1915, and as one can imagine, many were soon discarded. Arthur Mizener in A CATALOGUE OF THE FIRST EDITIONS OF ARCHIBALD MacLEISH (Yale University Library, 1938) states that copies he had seen were all cut down in order to fit into the class program. The only dimension he gives is 16.5 cm (6-1/2"), but alas he does not state if that is width or height. In any case this item, MacLeish's First Book, slim as it is, is extremely rare. Archibald MacLeish was not only a well-known poet but also served as Librarian of Congress, appointed by Franklin Roosevelt, a position he used to reorganize and promote the institution. In addition to winning three Pulitzer Prizes, MacLeish was commissioned by the NEW YORK TIMES to write a poem to celebrate the Apollo 11 moon landing, which he entitled "Voyage to the Moon" and which appeared on the front page of the 21 July 1969 edition of the paper. Some wrinkling and brief tears. Very Good and scarce.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Inscribed to "Hon John Lowell LLD with the respects of his nephew the author." Softcover, bound in wraps. The fore-corners creased; text unmarked. Inscribed by Author(s).

First Edition. First edition, 8vo, pp. 46, [2]; original printed wrappers, near fine. The Oration has the title "American Civilization." At the back is a "Parting Ode" by Calvin G. Child of New York City. Sabin 7782.

First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); disbound; 42pp. A hint of toning and dustiness, else a Very Good or better, quite fresh copy. The lengthy and rather gawdawful opening poem heavily influenced by the Transcendentalist movement, the opening lines reading "Of nature, and the influence she hath / Upon the human spirit, and with what / A pleasing sympathy she steals the heart / Away from all its sorrow, and so fits us / To run life's rounds rejoicing--would I sing!".…

First edition of Lowell's first separate book publication, preceded by a broadside poem. Author and poet, editor and critic, diplomat and reformer, James Russell Lowell (18191891) was one of America's leading 19th-century men of letters. Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to a prominent Massachusetts family, Lowell entered Harvard in 1834 but proved an indifferent student. Several months before graduation, Lowell was rusticated to Concord for violating college rules and served out the remainder of the term there. As the ANB points out, "Lowell's chief regret was that his enforced absence from Cambridge prevented him from fulfilling in person the office of class poet, an honor voted him by his classmates in recognition of his budding literary talents, which had already been displayed in essays and poems published in Harvardiana, the college magazine of which Lowell was an editor." Lowell graduated Harvard in 1838, and his Class Poem was published despite his absence from the commencement ceremonies. After an abortive foray into the law, Lowell turned his sights to literature. He would go on to establish himself as an author and poet, publishing numerous books over the course of his lifetime. He succeeded Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in 1855 as professor of modern languages at Harvard, a post he held for two decades. He served as the first editor of the Atlantic Monthly from 1857 to 1861 and as co-editor alongside Charles Eliot Norton of the North American Review from 1864 to 1872, positions which established him as the leading arbiter of American culture and literary taste. A first edition of this first book by an influential American man of letters. BAL 13036. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 51349. ANB 14, pp.40-43. Later green crushed morocco, spine gilt, board edges ruled in gilt. Extremities rubbed, joints starting, small chip at spine toe. Light, minimal foxing to text and some soiling to a few leaves. Original wrappers lacking. Later bookplates of Walter Thomas Wallace to front pastedown and James David Zellerbach formerly to front free endpaper since detached now laid in. About very good.…

First edition of Lowell's first separate book publication, preceded by a broadside poem. Author and poet, editor and critic, diplomat and reformer, James Russell Lowell (18191891) was one of America's leading 19th-century men of letters. Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to a prominent Massachusetts family, Lowell entered Harvard in 1834 but proved an indifferent student. Several months before graduation, Lowell was rusticated to Concord for violating college rules and spent the remainder of the term there. As the ANB points out, "Lowell's chief regret was that his enforced absence from Cambridge prevented him from fulfilling in person the office of class poet, an honor voted him by his classmates in recognition of his budding literary talents, which had already been displayed in essays and poems published in Harvardiana, the college magazine of which Lowell was an editor." Lowell graduated Harvard in 1838, and his Class Poem was published despite his absence from the commencement ceremonies. After an abortive foray into the law, Lowell turned his sights to literature. He would go on to establish himself as an author and poet, publishing numerous books over the course of his lifetime. He succeeded Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in 1855 as professor of modern languages at Harvard, a post he held for two decades. He served as the first editor of the Atlantic Monthly from 1857 to 1861 and as co-editor alongside Charles Eliot Norton of the North American Review from 1864 to 1872, positions which established him as the leading arbiter of American culture and literary taste. A first edition, with its original wrappers bound in, of this first book by an influential American man of letters. BAL 13036. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 51349. ANB 14, pp.40-43. Late 19th-century three-quarter blue morocco, original printed wrappers bound in. Edges rubbed, internally a fine copy.…