About this title: This book brings together the most notable verse that has been written for children over the past five hundred years. Based on a fresh examination of the sources of children's literature, the book contains more than three hundred poems by well over a hundred named authors (a fifth of them American) arranged chronologically, from Chaucer and Lydgate to T. S. Eliot and Ogden Nash. The volume thus offers a conspectus of verse-writing for children in the English language; and the notes on the authors, at the end of the volume, which form almost a directory to those who have written the best verse ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: 1973
ISBN-13:9780198121404ISBN:0198121407
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford Univ Press
Date Published: 1973
ISBN-13:9780198121404ISBN:0198121407
Description: Good. Copyright@1973. bce. hardback book w/DJ. has writing on front endpgage. edgewear to DJ. Does NOT come from smoke free home. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: 1973
ISBN-13:9780198121404ISBN:0198121407
Description: Very good in good dust jacket. Book close to fine condition. Jacket is somewhat faded, has some chips out of edge. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 420 p. Audience: Children/juvenile. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date Published: 1973
ISBN-13:9780198121404ISBN:0198121407
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date Published: 1973
ISBN-13:9780198121404ISBN:0198121407
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780192823496ISBN:0192823493
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Description: Shelf 904. 5.75 by 8.75 inches. Hardcover without dj. Published by Oxford Univ Press 1973. Appears to be first. Ex Lib copy with markings. Attachment on freepage stuck to inside cover. PO marking on foredge. Binding firm, clean text. Good condition. read more
Description: -Octavo, beautifully bound in three-quarters gilt-ruled maroon calf & marbled boards titled in gilt between gilt rules & raised bands in blind on the spine. The top edge is gilt. Marbled endpapers. The boards are lightly bumped & the leather is slightly rubbed at the corners & the tail of the spine. xxxii & 407 pages. The preliminary & rear blanks are darkened. A very attractive copy in a lovely simple binding. First edition. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: 1973-05-17
ISBN-13:9780198121404ISBN:0198121407
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN-13:9780192823496ISBN:0192823493
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Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Oxford University Press, N Y
Date Published: 1973
Description: Fine in Good jacket. Illustrated. About Fine hardbound copy in Good only dust jacket, with chipping and tears, but in protective mylar. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780192823496ISBN:0192823493
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