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The Book of Ballads
by MacEdwaed Leach
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Used - Like New
- Seller
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Southampton, New York, United States
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About This Item
Limited Editions Club, 1967. Limited. Hardcover. Used - Like New. First Edition Thus, First Printing (Copy #255 of 1,500). Published by The Limited Editions Club, 1967. Octavo. Teal cloth over red patterned boards with beveled edges, a paper spine label, and blue stopstain. In light blue paper over boards slipcase with paper spine label. Signed by artist Fritz Kredel on limitation page in back. Book is like new; clean with no writing or names. Binding tight and pages crisp. Sharp corners and spine straight. Slipcase has some light shelf wear with rubbing at a few corners and light tearing along top edge. A lovely copy of this beautifully illustrated edition of classic folk ballads selected and edited by MacEdward Leach. 215 pages. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Southampton, New York.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Southampton Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 91915
- Title
- The Book of Ballads
- Author
- MacEdwaed Leach
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New Used - Like New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Limited
- Publisher
- Limited Editions Club
- Date Published
- 1967
- Keywords
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Terms of Sale
Southampton Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Southampton Books
Biblio member since 2022
Southampton, New York
About Southampton Books
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- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Beveled
- Beveled edges, or beveled boards, describe a technique of binding in which the edges of book boards have been cut into slanted...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Spine Label
- The paper or leather descriptive tag attached to the spine of the book, most commonly providing the title and author of the...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
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