LIGHT METRES
by Lamport, Felicia
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0896960900
- ISBN 13
- 9780896960909
- Seller
-
Talent, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
New York: Everest House, 1982. First edition, first printing . Hardcover. Fine. Edward Gorey. Limited to 350 numbered copies. This is number 35 signed by Lamport and Gorey on a special limitation page. "A book of verbal and visual satire, an elegant potpourri of wit, originality, and impeccable technique." Bound in tan cloth with illustration in gilt and title on the spine in gilt with orange background. Toledano; Goreyography B69b. A fine and bright copy, lacking the fragile plain tissue dust jacket, within a fine example of the publisher's slipcase.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Robert Gavora, Fine and Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 39249
- Title
- LIGHT METRES
- Author
- Lamport, Felicia
- Illustrator
- Edward Gorey
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition, first printing
- ISBN 10
- 0896960900
- ISBN 13
- 9780896960909
- Publisher
- Everest House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1982
- Keywords
- poetry, fiction, illustration, rhymes, humor
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Robert Gavora, Fine and Rare Books
Biblio member since 2009
Talent, Oregon
About Robert Gavora, Fine and Rare Books
Robert Gavora, Fine and Rare Books has been a full-time mail order bookstore since 1984. Beginning with a small inventory of 400 books, we now have over 10,000 books. Though we do not have an open store, every year we exhibit at between 12 to 14 book fairs and events in the Western United States. All our books are listed on line and visitors are welcome by appointment.
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- Fine
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