A Cage of Spines
by Swenson, May
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near fine/very good
- Seller
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Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Rinehart & Company, Inc, 1958. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. 96pp. Octavo [22 cm] Black cloth. Minor rubbing at the spine ends and corners of the boards; previous owner's discreet ink stamp on the front free endpaper. In a dust jacket, with light rubbing and chipping to the extremities. The rear panel is just a trifle soiled. Celebrated 20th-century American poet May Swenson was a Utah native who died in 1989. This is a first edition of her second book.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 57218
- Title
- A Cage of Spines
- Author
- Swenson, May
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Rinehart & Company, Inc
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1958
- Keywords
- May Swenson; poetry; first edition; Utah
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2006
Salt Lake City, Utah
About Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
Ken Sanders Rare Books is a full service antiquarian bookshop in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah. We carry an ever-changing inventory of art, ephemera, maps, photography, and postcards in addition to a vast selection of used and rare books along with a few new books. We actively purchase and appraise books in all fields.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- 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...