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The Poems of Robert Lowell
by Lowell, Robert
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- Green boards have substantial cockling and bumped top corner, and light rub near foot of spine. Partial separation of ffep and s
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About This Item
Boston: E.P. Dutton and Company, 1864. A New Edition (with many new poems). 206 pp. [ii additional leaves as folded letter]. 8vo. Green boards have substantial cockling and bumped top corner, and light rub near foot of spine. Partial separation of ffep and small tear to rfep, some loose binding though all pages are intact and bright. Overall a very good and unique copy with letter from Lowell to regarding decisions about the book to publisher and future mayor of Cambridge, Henry Loughton sewn inside ffep. A New Edition (with many new poems)" 206 pp. [ii additional leaves as folded letter]. 8vo. With a tipped-in ANS by Lowell, dated Sept. 23, 1858, to Messrs. H.O. Houghton, addressing aspects of the publishing and printing of his books, Octavo sheet, folded, 3 pp. Robert Traill Spence Lowell (1816-1891) was the son of Charles Russell Lowell, Sr., the brother of James Russell Lowell, and the namesake of the confessional poet Robert (Traill Spence) Lowell (IV). BAL 13486
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- James Cummins Bookseller
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 333324
- Title
- The Poems of Robert Lowell
- Author
- Lowell, Robert
- Format/Binding
- 206 pp. [ii additional leaves as folded letter]. 8vo
- Book Condition
- Used - Green boards have substantial cockling and bumped top corner, and light rub near foot of spine. Partial separation of ffep and s
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- A New Edition (with many new poems)
- Publisher
- E.P. Dutton and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1864
- Keywords
- Poetry | American | Robert Lowell
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- Literature;
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- Leaves
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- FFEP
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- New
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- RFEP
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- Octavo
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- Spine
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- E.P.
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