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BRONZE WOOD
by SANDBURG, Carl
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Photograph once tipped in is now loose but present. Slight wear to bottom corners. Near Fine
- Seller
-
Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
San Francisco: (Grabhorn Press for Gelber, Lilienthal, Inc.), 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. Photograph once tipped in is now loose but present. Slight wear to bottom corners. Near Fine. Henry Flannery. Thin quarto (8-3/4" x 11-1/2") in orange cloth-backed wood veneer boards with a printed paper spine label. With an original photograph frontispiece by Henry Flannery. Copy #9 of only 50 SIGNED by both the poet and the photographer. Though one frequently sees one of the edition of 195 unsigned copies with a photographic reproduction in orange boards, this issue of the book, signed and with the original photograph, is quite scarce.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Charles Agvent
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 018385
- Title
- BRONZE WOOD
- Author
- SANDBURG, Carl
- Illustrator
- Henry Flannery
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Photograph once tipped in is now loose but present. Slight wear to bottom corners. Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- (Grabhorn Press for Gelber, Lilienthal, Inc.)
- Place of Publication
- San Francisco
- Date Published
- 1941
- Keywords
- Signed, Carl Sandburg, Modern Poetry, Limited, Modern Firsts, Modern First Editions, Grabhorn Press
- Bookseller catalogs
- Grabhorn Press;
Terms of Sale
Charles Agvent
All books subject to prior sale. Payment with order; institutions may be billed. Postage additional: $11.00 for the first book, $6.00 each thereafter. Overseas postage billed at approximate cost. Pennsylvania residents must add 6% sales tax. Mastercard, Visa, and American Express accepted. We are also open to reasonable payment terms. A book may be returned within 7 days of receipt for any reason provided it is in the same condition as sent and prior notice is given. Please insure returns for their full value.
About the Seller
Charles Agvent
Biblio member since 2003
Fleetwood, Pennsylvania
About Charles Agvent
We carry a diverse and select stock with major specialties including Modern and 19th Century Literary First Editions, Signed Books & Autographs (especially Presidential and Literary), and Limited Editions Club books. We have been in business since 1987 and are proud to be members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America (ABAA) and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB).
Glossary
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- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- Fine
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- First Edition
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- Spine Label
- The paper or leather descriptive tag attached to the spine of the book, most commonly providing the title and author of the...
- Tipped In
- Tipped In is used to describe something which has been glued into a book. Tipped-in items can include photos, book plates,...
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