Cornhuskers
by Sandburg, Carl (1878-1967)
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No
- Seller
-
East Granby, Connecticut, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1918. First edition, first printing, 1918. First issue, with page 3 numbered at the bottom, and the Chicago Poems book advertised at 1.30 opposite the title page. Khaki boards lettered in deep green, 147 pages plus two pages of publisher's advertisements, no dustjacket. Rubbed at the extremities with some surface soil, series of very tiny closed tears at spine head only affecting the horizontal line above the title, some foxing to outer edges of text block, good hinges, sound text block, clean pages free from names or other markings.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Resource Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 019576
- Title
- Cornhuskers
- Author
- Sandburg, Carl (1878-1967)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Henry Holt and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1918
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Keywords
- AMERICAN POETRY VERSE PULITZER PRIZE WINNER
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction, Literature, Poetry, Literary History;
Terms of Sale
Resource Books, LLC
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About the Seller
Resource Books, LLC
Biblio member since 2004
East Granby, Connecticut
About Resource Books, LLC
Resource Books, LLC deals in antiquarian and out-of-print books in a wide variety of subject matter, mainly non-fiction.
Glossary
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- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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....
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