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Hard not to be King.
by Robert Frost
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Bluffton, South Carolina, United States
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About This Item
New York: House of Books, Ltd., 1951. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Robert Frost. Hard not to be King. New York: House of Books, 1951. 1st edition limited to 300 numbered copies Signed by the Author: this is number 73, and signed by Frost. A crown octavo, blue cloth with gilt titles, unpaginated. Number 11 of the Crown Octavos published by The House of Books and made by Peter Beilenson, Mount Vernon, New York. Condition: VERY GOOD book / no jacket: there is typical sunning the blue cloth on the spine and around the edges of the front and back boards, a penciled owner name on front eps has been erased. Internally clean and tight.
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- Bookseller
- Bygone Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 17758
- Title
- Hard not to be King.
- Author
- Robert Frost
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Limited Edition
- Publisher
- House of Books, Ltd.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1951
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- POETRY, LIMITED EDITIONS, SIGNED, COLLECTIBLE BOOKS, AMERICAN LITERATURE
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature / Poetry;
Terms of Sale
Bygone Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Bygone Books
Biblio member since 2004
Bluffton, South Carolina
About Bygone Books
A closed shop of fine used and collectible books with specialties in Literature, Children's, Domestic Arts, Decorative Arts, and Great Britain.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
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