Selected Poems
by Swinburne, Algernon Charles
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/Good
- Seller
-
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
London: John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd, 1928. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Harry Clarke. 8vo. 8vo. 217pp. Magenta cloth with gilt to front board and spine, with decorations in gilt to match the dust jacket. Top edge gilt, illustrated endpapers, many pages uncut. Dust jacket with little chips in the corners and shallow chipping to the spine ends, with a couple of light scuffs to the front cover and a circular paper sticker covering the original price on the spine. First of this edition published by John Lane, with illustrations by Harry Clarke. A particularly fresh copy.
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- Bookseller
- Karol Krysik Books, ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 44074
- Title
- Selected Poems
- Author
- Swinburne, Algernon Charles
- Illustrator
- Harry Clarke
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 2
- Publisher
- John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1928
Terms of Sale
Karol Krysik Books, ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA
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
Karol Krysik Books, ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA
Biblio member since 2012
Toronto, Ontario
About Karol Krysik Books, ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA
Interesting and unusual books and printed matter. Visual items, illustrated books, private press, mythology/folklore, modern first editions. Member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of Canada (ABAC) and theIndependent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA)
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- 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....
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...