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The Faber Book of Modern Verse
by Roberts, Edited By Michael
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG+/VG/ACC
- ISBN 10
- 1135418004
- ISBN 13
- 9781135418007
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK, "UNCOMMON," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: 1st.* Imp: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1936* Publisher: Faber & Faber.* Binding and cover condition: Mid-blue cloth, gilt title to spine. No bumps, minor rubs, slight shelf wear to upper & lower edges and to head and especially to tail of spine. Some slight marks to boards. VG* Jacket condition: Text illustrated dust wrapper, black titles to face and spine. Small blue printer's name and small logo to face. Price clipped, showing no shelf price. Considerable shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head, tail & middle of spine. Some losses overall. Now in clear protective wrapper. ACC* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Top edge coloured (red), and somewhat aged. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with minimal reading wear, no marks to text, some marks to end-papers & edges. VG.* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 342 pp. text. xi pp., acknowledgements, index of authors & blank pages at rear.* Description: There are numerous anthologies representing various schools of more or less modern verse. Only verse which was really representative of its time was included; and chiefly of those poets which have had the most significance for poets coming after them. The works of Gerard Manley Hopkins and William Butler Yeats are for that reason, well represented as having an influence on the poetry of the day.* A NEAR VG+ text copy of the 1st/1st. with some age & wear in a POOR protected dust jacket.*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1137
- Title
- The Faber Book of Modern Verse
- Author
- Roberts, Edited By Michael
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG+/VG/ACC
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition Thus, 1st. Imp.
- ISBN 10
- 1135418004
- ISBN 13
- 9781135418007
- Publisher
- Faber
- Place of Publication
- London UK 353
- Date Published
- 1936-01-01
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- Cloth
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- VG
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- Bumps
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- Tight
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- Jacket
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- Gilt
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Edges
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- Crisp
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- Poor
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- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- 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....
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