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Poemscapes
by Kenneth Patchen
- Used
- Condition
- Good condition, spine creased with wear, spine ends bruised and rubbed, cover titles rubbed, corners creased, cover fore edge wo
- Seller
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Ridgewood, New York, United States
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About This Item
Highlands, North Carolina: Jargon, 1958. Signature-bound, octavo, plain paper wraps, card stock pictorial dust jacket with flaps pasted down as issued, [50]. Good condition, spine creased with wear, spine ends bruised and rubbed, cover titles rubbed, corners creased, cover fore edge worn, flaps creased, lower cover rubbed with soiling and creasing, minimal soiling to text block. Cover photograph by Harry Redl.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Better Read Than Dead
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1998
- Title
- Poemscapes
- Author
- Kenneth Patchen
- Illustrator
- Cover photograph by Harry Redl
- Format/Binding
- Signature-bound, octavo, plain paper wraps, card stock pictorial dust jacket with flaps pasted down as issued, [50]
- Book Condition
- Used - Good condition, spine creased with wear, spine ends bruised and rubbed, cover titles rubbed, corners creased, cover fore edge wo
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Jargon
- Place of Publication
- Highlands, North Carolina
- Date Published
- 1958
- Keywords
- Kenneth Patchen, Poemscapes
Terms of Sale
Better Read Than Dead
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Better Read Than Dead
Biblio member since 2023
Ridgewood, New York
About Better Read Than Dead
Better Read Than Dead has been selling used books and other printed materials in Brooklyn, NY since 2012. We currently operate two open storefronts and an ever-growing online inventory.
Glossary
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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....
- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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