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English Love Poems
by Various; Edited by John Betjeman and Geoffrey Taylor
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Inverness, Highland, United Kingdom
Item Price
NZ$52.49NZ$39.36
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About This Item
English Love Poems, edited by John Betjeman and Geoffrey Taylor.
Hardback, 1957, illustrated, published by Faber and Faber, London, 220 pages.
Octavo/8vo, measures around 8 1/8" by 5 15/8" by 7/8". Patterned dust jacket which is price-clipped, displays some marking, scuffing and some tattering, with chipping. Red patterned cloth binding, gilt lettering to front board and spine, clean though with signs of shelf-wear and tearing at top of rear board. Binding firm. Page edges a little foxed and slightly browned but reasonably clean. Gift inscription to front free endpaper, light foxing to endpapers but otherwise page surfaces very clean, no underlining, marginalia, etc. See pictures for further information.
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Details
- Bookseller
- GN Books and Prints
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- #BIBLIO-293
- Title
- English Love Poems
- Author
- Various; Edited by John Betjeman and Geoffrey Taylor
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1957
- Pages
- 220
- Size
- 8vo.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Sir Walter Raleigh, Henry Constable, John Donne, John Milton, John Dryden, Alexander Pope, William Blake, Lord Byron, John Keats, Edward Lear, Robert Browning, W B Yeats, Wilfred Owen, William Shakespeare, Jonathan Swift, Dylan Thomas, Alfred Lord Tennyso
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About the Seller
GN Books and Prints
Biblio member since 2022
Inverness, Highland
About GN Books and Prints
Seller based in the Scottish Highlands, dealing in a variety of books, including antiquarian, vintage and modern.
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- Foxed
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- 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...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- Marginalia
- Marginalia, in brief, are notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner. This is very...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
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