Antiquariaat Fokas Holthuis (ILAB/NVVA): American Poetry
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Poems.
Boston, Bruce Humphries, 1938. Cloth-backed silver-green decorated boards. 192 p. 1st edition. Spine loosening. Ex-library book with several marks (but not that terrible). Extensive collection of short poems. Cooke died in 1939, 56 years old.
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Catalogue: American Poetry
Poems of Child Labor.
New York, National Child Labor Committee, 1924. Ingenaaid. 56 p. 1e druk. Rugje iets versleten, eerste en laatste pagina verbruind. Met voorwoord van Owen R. Lovejoy, voorzitter van het comité tegen kinderarbeid dat deze bloemlezing uitbracht. Met poëzie van Sarah Cleghorn, Richard Burton, Henry Van Dyke, Robert Frost, Margaret E. Sangster, John Addington Symonds, Louis Untermeyer en anderen.
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Catalogue: American Poetry
A Cabinet of Jade. (First edition, inscribed).
Boston, The Four Seas Company, 1918. 16 x 12 cm. Original decorated green boards. 112 p. Partly unopened. 1st edition. Spine a bit worn, light spot on upper cover. Remains of a bookplate. Inscribed by O'Neil: 'To / Mrs Whitehead/ with the author's/ best wishes'. The only volume of poems by this American businessman (1874-1947), a 'lumber baron', father of actress Barbara O'Neil.
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Catalogue: American Poetry
I hear America singing. (Anthology of American war poetry, translated into Dutch).
Amsterdam, Uitgeverij Vrij Nederland, [1948]. Cloth-backed boards. 64 p. 1st edition. Corner bump, but an excellent copy. Translations of war-marked poetry of a.o. W.H. Auden, Robinson Jeffers, e.e. cummings, Robert Frost and 15 other British, American and Australian poets. Introduction by Adriaan van der Veen. Van der Plas was only 21 when this book was published. Delicate typography by F. Tamminga.
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Catalogue: American Poetry
The Phantom Lover. (Poems).
Chicago, AD Weinthrop, 1926. Geïllustreerd karton. (10), 38 p. Omslagontwerp door Leslie Powell en portret van de auteur (frontispice) door Jack Fisk. 1e druk. Rug versleten. Opvallende omslag deels verkleurd. Ex libris met opschrift 'Dorothy Alice Read from Archer'.
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Catalogue: American Poetry
Purple Stains. (Poems).
New York, Minton, Balch & Company, 1928. Halflinnen. (12), 36 p. Met fotografisch frontispice van de auteur. Gedrukt in 751 genummerde exemplaren. Gesigneerd 'Henry V. Stevenson/ The Phantom Lover'. Band iets verkleurd, hoekjes gedeukt. Zingbare liefdesgedichten, maar ook 'I know there are onions in Heaven,/ For they have a heavenly smell' en 'The clergy are always after me,/ Insisting that I repent'.
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Catalogue: American Poetry
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