The Magnetic Mountain
by [BLOOMSBURY]; DAY LEWIS, C.[ecil]
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 1933. FIRST, LIMITED & SIGNED EDITION, no. 94/ 100. Slim 8vo, pp. 55, [1]. Original rose-brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Lean to spine, rubbed and soiled, pushing to spine ends. Gently toned, ffep spotted, signed and numbered by Day Lewis in blue ink to limitation page, a few marks to gutter, front matter gently creased, else, clean. Unusual. Good+ A robust copy of the first, limited & signed edition of Day Lewis' early poetry collection, reflecting his leftist politics of the period. Published in March 1933 and priced at 7s6d, it was no. 1 in the Hogarth Living Poets, Second Series. A trade edition, of 500 copies, was published simultaneously. With a printed dedication: "To W. H. Auden". Woolmer 318A
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- Bookseller
- Quair Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2742
- Title
- The Magnetic Mountain
- Author
- [BLOOMSBURY]; DAY LEWIS, C.[ecil]
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1933
- Bookseller catalogs
- Signed & Association Copies;
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About the Seller
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Leeds, West Yorkshire
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- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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...
- 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....