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September 2003 Fine Art and Antiques Auction

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696. The Chilton Thomson Collection of "Bad Poetry"

A collection of 20 poetry books collected by Mr. Thomson and used in his many informal talks on the subject of "Bad Poetry." Many of the titles are quite scarce...you decide if they are valuable. Titles include: "Very Bad Poetry" edited by Kathryn Petroas; "When We Were Rather Older." by Fairfax Downey; "I Shall Sing Sweeter Songs." by Bessie Maas Rowe; "The Talisman and Other Poems." by D. C. Richards; "Borrowngs." by the Ladies of the First Unitarian Church of Oakland, California; "Legend of a City." by Edward W. Dutcher; "Poems." by Nina F. Layard; "The Complete Clerihews" by Clerihew Bentley; "Some One Like You." by James Foley; "Poems of Passion." by Ella Wheeler; "Legend of Old St. Augustine." by Burton Pugh; "Echoes From A Dell." by Berton Huntly; "England's Book of Parlour Poetry"; "Window-Shopping." by Isabel Fiske Conant; "Welded Links." by Annetta Peckham; "Buckey Ballads." by Cora Gaines Carrel; "Rock Me to Sleep Mother." by Elizabeth Akers Allen; "Rhyming Cookbook." by Nevada Poetry Society; "Blue Law Ballad, a Purge for Puritans." by the Sinners; "You Know these Lines." by Merle Johnson.



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