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Hymns / by John Rodker.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection PR6035.O616 H9 1920 Gotham copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rodker, John, 1894-1955.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- English poetry.
- Poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Sunwise Turn (label) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Polster, Max A. (inscription) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 39 pages ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Ovid Press, 1920.
- Contents:
- Hymn to love
- Hymn to heat
- Hymn to cold
- Hymn to death 1914 and on
- Hymn to himself
- Hymn of hymns
- Gas fire
- Three poems
- I'd have loved you as you deserved, had we been frogs
- The dancer dancing
- The scourged
- Pregnant
- Chryselephantine
- Inventory of abortive poems
- Lamps
- From a biography
- Under the trees
- Deserted wife
- Dancer
- Wax dummy in shop window
- 'The pale hysterical ecstasy'
- Wild West remittance man.
- Notes:
- "This edition of 190 copies is the second book of the Ovid Press, was printed by John and Mary Rodker, and completed April 8th, 1980. Of this edition, 15 copies on Japan vellum numbered 1-15 & not for sale; 20 signed copies numbered 16-35; 155 unsigned copies numbered 36-190. The initials and colophon by E. Wadsworth."--Colophon.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has ms. ownership inscription of "Max A. Polster B[roo]klyn Heights, Dec. 1948" on the front endpaper.
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has label of bookseller Sunwise Turn, Inc. on back
- Other Format:
- Online version: Rodker, John, 1894-1955. Hymns.
- OCLC:
- 2696989
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