John Brown's Body
by Stephen Vincent Benet
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Seller
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Centreville, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Trade Edition. Bound by Whitman Bennett bindery (1 of 12 bound by Whitman Bennett) in full decorated crushed morocco, with a note by the author. Beautiful, marbled endpapers. Gilt text block edges. Tight and square binding. Edges and hinges rubbed. Stephen Vincent Benet, a prominent early 20th century poet, wrote his most famous book-length poem about the Civil War. Benét won the Pulitzer Prize for his acclaimed poem named after the song about the great martyr for emancipation, John Brown.
Synopsis
An American folk-epic which depicts the events of the Civil War.
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- Bookseller
- EGR books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3234
- Title
- John Brown's Body
- Author
- Stephen Vincent Benet
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Doran and Company
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date Published
- 1928
- Pages
- 377 pages
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fine Binding;
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- 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...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 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...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...