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Harold, A Drama
by Tennyson, Alfred Lord
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- g+ to vg+
- Seller
-
Santa Monica, California, United States
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About This Item
London: Henry S. King, 1877. First edition. Hardcover. g+ to vg+. Octavo. 161pp. Contemporary blue calf with debossed gilt design and initials on the front cover. Spine with gilt lettering, stamped design and raised bands. All edges gilt. Marbled boards. The book is a first edition of Tennyson's narrative poem about the last Anglo-Saxon king of England, Harold Godwinson (Harold II). Name of previous owner in ink at the top of the front free endpaper. Binding with some bumping and rubbing to edges, corners and spine. Some scratches and smudging to covers. Interior with minor sporadic water staining throughout. Binding in good+, interior in very good+ condition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 42083
- Title
- Harold, A Drama
- Author
- Tennyson, Alfred Lord
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - g+ to vg+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Henry S. King
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1877
- Keywords
- Romantic poetry, English poetry, Victorian Poetry, Romantic Literature, Literary Romanticism, Victorian literature, 19th century literature, English literature, narrative poetry,
Terms of Sale
Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
Biblio member since 2009
Santa Monica, California
About Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
We offer a broad selection of rare, out-of-print and antiquarian books with an emphasis on photography, architecture, art, Judaica, Bibles, Weimar Germany and the Third Reich, modernism, Olympic Games, erotica and foreign-language works, especially German, Hebrew, Polish and Yiddish. We also provide appraisal, auction, consulting and rental services.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- 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...
- G+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good. Good is defined as "describes the average used and worn book...
- 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....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- Marbled boards
- ...
- 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...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
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