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Homage to Clio
by W.H. Auden
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +/Very Good
- Seller
-
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Faber and Faber, 1960. Very Good +/Very Good. London: Faber and Faber, 1960. First Edition. Octavo. 91 pages. Printed dust jacket. Purple boards stamped in gilt.
Price-clipped dust jacket lightly rubbed and toned along edges with a few short closed tears along flaps and spine ends. Boards show light shelfwear to extremities. Binding is sound. Blank bookplate to front pastedown. Pages clean and unmarked.
Price-clipped dust jacket lightly rubbed and toned along edges with a few short closed tears along flaps and spine ends. Boards show light shelfwear to extremities. Binding is sound. Blank bookplate to front pastedown. Pages clean and unmarked.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8913
- Title
- Homage to Clio
- Author
- W.H. Auden
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1960
Terms of Sale
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
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
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2019
Washington, District of Columbia
About Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
Capitol Hill Books is a used bookstore in the Eastern Market neighborhood of Washington, DC. We have three floors of quality used books, first editions, and rare books.
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- 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...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- 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...
- 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....
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