Lyrics of Lowly Life
by Dunbar, Paul Laurence
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
-
SHREWSBURY, Shropshire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
UK: Chapman and Hall, 1897. Green cloth with gilt titles and decoration, top edge gilt, rubbing/pushing to spine ends and corners, slight fraying to edges, book a little cocked, browning to endpapers, frontispiece portrait of Dunbar with a foxed tissue guard (some of the foxing is offset to title page), otherwise internally very good.. First Edition. Hardcover. Good.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Nigel Sustins Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005800
- Title
- Lyrics of Lowly Life
- Author
- Dunbar, Paul Laurence
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Chapman and Hall
- Place of Publication
- UK
- Date Published
- 1897
- Keywords
- Dunbar Lyrics Lowly Life
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
Terms of Sale
Nigel Sustins Books
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About the Seller
Nigel Sustins Books
Biblio member since 2006
SHREWSBURY, Shropshire
About Nigel Sustins Books
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Glossary
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- 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...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Offset
- A technique of printing where the inked image or text is ...
- 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...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
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