Locksley Hall Etc. (and The Promise of May)
by Tennyson, Alfred Lord
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
London: Macmillan, 1886. Book. Very Good. Cloth. First Edition. 12mo. publisher's original green cloth with gilt spine titles. 201 pp. A tight, square, clean, unmarked and unread volume with unopened pages. Page 9 has a short closed horizontal tear, distinctive small printed bookplate of previous owner on front pastedown. A small tear to cloth a spine top and bottom and barely visible line of latent puckering along spine of front board. Despite the catalogue of minor faults described this is a very well preserved, unopened, unread and attractive volume. Very good or better..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Brillig Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 09730
- Title
- Locksley Hall Etc. (and The Promise of May)
- Author
- Tennyson, Alfred Lord
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1886
- Keywords
- TENNYSON, VERSE, ENGLISH, ROMANTIC, POETRY, POET, DRAMA, NOVEL, PLAY, POEM,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
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About the Seller
Brillig Books
Biblio member since 2006
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
About Brillig Books
An independent bookseller of uncommon, out-of-print, used and rare books since 1991.
Glossary
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- Unopened
- A state in which all or some of the pages of a book have not been separated from the adjacent pages, caused by a traditional...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...