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Rain on the Marsh
by Rutledge, Archibald
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Cloth; Bostick & Thornley, Inc ; 1940; First Edition
- Seller
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Bangor, Pennsylvania, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Columbia, SC. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Cloth; Bostick & Thornley, Inc ; 1940; . First Edition. Green illustrated dust wrapper, very good several small chips to edges. Jacket design by Catherine Phillips Rembert. Green cloth with gilt titles to spine and front board. Very good, minor rubbing to edges. First Edition, 236 pages. 8vo. in unclipped dust wrapper. Rutledge was South Carolina's first poet laureate, a position he held until his death in 1973. Previous owner's name, I.B. Cauthen, Jr. who was a past president of The Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia were he was also a professor. Reviewer's copy written in rear gutter.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bluestocking Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9263
- Title
- Rain on the Marsh
- Author
- Rutledge, Archibald
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Cloth; Bostick & Thornley, Inc ; 1940; First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- Columbia, SC
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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Biblio member since 2007
Bangor, Pennsylvania
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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...
- 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....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
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