POEMS
by Henry W. Longfellow
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair with chips along spine edges, edgewear - but contents bright and tight, bright cover & edges gilt, tight binding.
- Seller
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Nevada City, California, United States
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About This Item
Chicago: WB Conkey Co., (no date). Hardcover in red pebbled boards w gilt titling & decoration, no jacket.. Fair with chips along spine edges, edgewear - but contents bright and tight, bright cover & edges gilt, tight binding.. Chipped & worn boards but otherwise a clean tight copy containing about 80 poems.
5 x 7-1/2, 192 pp, all edges gilt, color marbled endpapers, b/w author-photo frontispiece.
5 x 7-1/2, 192 pp, all edges gilt, color marbled endpapers, b/w author-photo frontispiece.
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Details
- Bookseller
- edburynbooks (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 25289
- Title
- POEMS
- Author
- Henry W. Longfellow
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover in red pebbled boards w gilt titling & decoration, no jacket.
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair with chips along spine edges, edgewear - but contents bright and tight, bright cover & edges gilt, tight binding.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- WB Conkey Co.
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- (no date)
- Keywords
- Fiction, Poetry, Literature, Criticism
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
edburynbooks
Biblio member since 2007
Nevada City, California
About edburynbooks
I sell from my home, where I have about 25,000 books shelved or stored. I am also an author, poet, photographer, taroist, publisher, collector. Selling books online for almost 15 years, including my own titles and rare books from my collection.
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- Gilt
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- Pebbled
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