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Bar-Room Ballads
by Service, Robert
- Used
- Very Good
- Signed
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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About This Item
Toronto: Reginald Saunders, 1940. Undetermined. very good. 1st Canadian Edition, First impression. viii, [2], 169 pp. Octavo. Teal cloth with gilt lettering on spine and front cover (Reginald Saunders on bottom of spine which differentiates the external appearance from that of the US version). Light bumping to ends of spine. Slight darkening and foxing to endpapers. Missing half title and pages 3-6, 55-62, 87-95 and 103-108 which were removed by Service himself as discussed in the inscription (the first group of page was roughly cut out while the others were torn, leaving some of the other pages loose or with small tears). Clean text block. In dust jacket (red with black and white illustration and lettering). Jacket is rubbed with chipping and small closed tears to edges. Not price clipped. Light soiling to back of jacket- some minor professional restoration has been done to dust jacket to prevent additional chipping. A very interesting copy. very good Inscribed on the front free endpaper by Service (in black ink). Inscription reads "To Rexforde and Marjorie Sharp- this mutilated book with deep regret I tore out some pages- Kindest regards and best wishes, Cordially Robert Service" A24 a. 2. (pp. 158) in Mitham. Includes "Five Frivolous Songs" from Twenty Bath-Tub Ballads. Many of these ballads were written during the previous decade. "The Ballad of Touch-the-Button Nell" (formerly "The Ballad of Riley Dooleyvitch" was earlier excluded from Ballads of a Cheechako (1909) due to its moral tone. 1940
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Details
- Bookseller
- Aquila Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 132582
- Title
- Bar-Room Ballads
- Author
- Service, Robert
- Format/Binding
- Undetermined
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Reginald Saunders
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 1940
- Keywords
- Can Lit|Canadian Author|Canadian Lit|Canadian Poems|Literature|Poems|Poetry|Robert Service|Robert W Service|Yukon
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- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- Text Block
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- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Cloth
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- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Inscribed
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