Light Metres
by Lamport, Felicia
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0896960900
- ISBN 13
- 9780896960909
- Seller
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Staten Island, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Everest House, 1982. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, faux white vellum paper covered boards in publisher's white, non price-clipped dust-jacket. 122 pages. Illustrated by Edward Gorey. First trade edition, first printing. Previous owner's Edward Gorey book-plate on first free end-paper. Another collection of ironic and satirical verse by Lamport and Gorey, sure to please the misanthropic and sardonic. Book is clean, sound and unmarked. Dust-jacket shows two short tears, now tape repaired on verso. Near fine in good+ dust-jacket. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Great Expectations Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 019469
- Title
- Light Metres
- Author
- Lamport, Felicia
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Good+
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0896960900
- ISBN 13
- 9780896960909
- Publisher
- Everest House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1982
- Keywords
- Humor, Verse, Edward Gorey
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
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About the Seller
Great Expectations Rare Books
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Staten Island, New York
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Vellum
- Vellum is a sheet of specialty prepared skin of lamb, calf, or goat kid used for binding a book or for printing and writing. ...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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...