Collected Poems
by Sassoon, Siegfried
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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HARWICH PORT, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: Viking, 1949. Book. Very Good. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. New York, NY, Viking, 1949. First edition. 8vo. Teal blue silk with gilt lettering and designs embossed on spine, blind stamp of Viking Ship on front board, 269 pp. A beautiful collection of Siegfried Sasson's poetic works; a must for every collector! Dust jacket is sunned on spine and outer edges, soiled on spine, dog-eared along top at spine with small (1/8") chips missing and a larger (1/4"x5/8") chip missing from bottom of dust jacket spine, bindings sunned on spine and slightly sunned on outer edges, discolored at bottom of spine, owner name, text block tight, bright and clean, appears gently read. Very good with a good dust jacket, protected by a mylar cover..
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- Respectful Exits
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- EM-B0568-09
- Title
- Collected Poems
- Author
- Sassoon, Siegfried
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Viking
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1949
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- POETRY
- Bookseller catalogs
- Rare Poetry; Poetry;
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Respectful Exits
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- First Edition
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- Cloth
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- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Gilt
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- Soiled
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