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Johnson, Merle (notes and compilation)

You Know These Lines! A Bibliography of the Most Quoted Verses in American Poetry.

New York G. A. Baker & Co. 1935, Limited Edition No Jacket Cloth Signed Near Fine 8vo., 195pp. 1/1000 copies signed by Merle Johnson on copyright page.. Foreword by H.L. Mencken. An annotated checklist of favorite lines of poetry and their publication history. Index. This copy is also warmly inscribed by the Merle Johnson on front pastedown as follows: for C K Statelmeyer who desires to learn and be benefited by the wisdom her set laboriously completed by his truly, Merle Johnson. In gilt-stamped brown cloth boards with typical fading of spine. Each selected poem also has a descriptive bibliography of the first edition.

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