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Bar- Room Ballads: A Book Of Verse
by Service, Robert
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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Calgary , Alberta, Canada
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About This Item
Toronto: Reginald Saunders Press, 1940 Hardcover. No Jacket. Stated First Printing, First Edition. 169Pp., In Poor To Fair Condition. There Are Two Stamps Bearing The Name Of The Former Owner As Well As His Signature, And On The Last Blank Page, In Pencil, Are The Words To "Some Hae Meat And Cannae Eat." The Upper Front Panel And Spine Have Sustained Water Damage, Which Has Resulted In A Greyish Stain And A Little Of The Teal Blue Dye To Run Onto The Endpaper And Ffep. Hinge Lightly Cracked At Center. There Is Also Light Toning And A Bad Corner Crease To One Page. Otherwise Quite Serviceable.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Sparkle Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003361
- Title
- Bar- Room Ballads: A Book Of Verse
- Author
- Service, Robert
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Reginald Saunders Press
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 1940
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- POETRY CANADIAN YUKON
Terms of Sale
Sparkle Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Sparkle Books
Biblio member since 2008
Calgary , Alberta
About Sparkle Books
I search out used books on principle to highlight their value, keep them circulating and out of the landfill (and just because I am compelled to tell people to "read this"!)
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- Poor
- A book with significant wear and faults. A poor condition book is still a reading copy with the full text still readable. Any...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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....
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