The Land of Heart's Desire
by Yeats, W.B
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Minus/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Chico, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, 1903. This is a Very Good (Minus) copy of the First Edition Thus, the First Printing of Mosher's production, which was LIMITED to 950 copies. Gray paper-covered boards with paper labels on spine and front cover. Clean text; 33 pages plus the delimitation. An attractive but rather fragile production, this copy has cracked at the spine, showing the netting, but seems to be holding rather well. Bumped, and a couple of tiny chips. Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. First Thus.. Hard Cover. Very Good Minus/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quercus Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003054
- Title
- The Land of Heart's Desire
- Author
- Yeats, W.B
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Minus
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Thus.
- Publisher
- Thomas B. Mosher
- Place of Publication
- Portland, Maine
- Date Published
- 1903
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Literature (Irish Authors);
Terms of Sale
Quercus Rare Books
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About the Seller
Quercus Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Chico, California
About Quercus Rare Books
Quercus Books seeks out and provides to the discriminating Reader or Collector noteworthy books in the First Edition. Our particular focus is on Modern Literature (roughly from the Second World War to the present) and Irish Authors. We also retain a small stock of non-fiction titles, mostly in the fields of American Western History, American Indians, and the American Civil War. Member of IOBA - the Independent Online Booksellers Association.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- 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....
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...