APPLE AND THE SPECTROSCOPE: Being Lectures on Poetry Designed (in the Main) for Science Students
by Henn, T. R./Bragg, Professor Sir Lawrence
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good-
- Seller
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
London: Methuen & Company Ltd. (1951) 168 pp. Original red cloth covers w/ gilt title on spine. Spine sunned; ends a bit bumped. Previous owner's name on front paste-down. DJ lightly soiled w/ few, small chips to edges. Spine darkened. A number of lectures on poetry and prose given at Cambridge during the Long Vacations of 1946-50.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good-. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Shoemaker Booksellers
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6097
- Title
- APPLE AND THE SPECTROSCOPE: Being Lectures on Poetry Designed (in the Main) for Science Students
- Author
- Henn, T. R./Bragg, Professor Sir Lawrence
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good-
- Publisher
- Methuen & Company Ltd.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Keywords
- LITERATURE ENGLISH POETRY POEMS POETS LECTURES CAMBRIDGE LONG VACATIONS 1946 1950 SCIENCE STUDENTS HISTORY CRITICISM POETIC WORKS POETICAL WORKS LITERARY WORKS
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science; Poetry; Literature/Poetry;
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
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Shoemaker Booksellers
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
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- Cloth
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- Soiled
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
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