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Hisperica Famina The Garden of God
by Winthrop Palmer Boswell
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/No Jacket
- Seller
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Gleneden Beach, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
San Francisco: Privately Printed, 1974. Limited. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. Private Press, Limited Edition 1/400 copies, oblong book 11.5 inches long X 9.5 inches wide, 56 pages, translation of Latin poem by Winthrop Palmer Boswell, who also signed the book under the title on the half title page, the title of the poem translates to "The Awful Truth", Egyptian god , and the story of the creation of the garden of aden. Book is Fine, aqua desings on paper hard cover, cloth spine with paper title label, tight and square with sharp corners, No previous owner writing, beautifully printed on high qualtiy paper. A beuatiful study of language and egyptology. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pacific Coast Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000289
- Title
- Hisperica Famina The Garden of God
- Author
- Winthrop Palmer Boswell
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Limited
- Publisher
- Privately Printed
- Place of Publication
- San Francisco
- Date Published
- 1974
- Keywords
- Fine Press, Private Press, Egypt, Egyptology
Terms of Sale
Pacific Coast Books
10 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 10 days after delivery if an item arrives mis-described or damaged.
About the Seller
Pacific Coast Books
Biblio member since 2015
Gleneden Beach, Oregon
About Pacific Coast Books
Pacific Coast Books specializes in quality of books of interest from our store on the Central Oregon Coast. We are proud members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America and have been buying and selling books for almost 20 years. Visit our website at www.Pacifc CoastBooks.net. Please feel free to call or email with any titles you would like to add to your collection. Only a small fraction of our inventory is online. We buy book collections.
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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...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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