A Spenser Handbook
by JONES, H. S. V
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York: F. S. Crofts & Co.. Good with no dust jacket. 1930. Hardcover. A scholarly analysis of the poetry of England's Edmund Spenser (c.1552-1599). With biographical information about Spenser, as well as detailed examination of his works, such as the various versions of "The Faerie Queene." With frontis black & white portrait of Mr. Spenser. Indexed. --- In full navy cloth-covered boards with titling in blind to front cover and spine. Volume lacks a dust jacket. --- A Good-only copy, with penciled and inked notations throughout, and at endpapers. Spine titling may once have been in gilt, tears to cloth, front free endpaper has been torn out and with large Texas bookseller label to front paste-down; a else a tightly-bound, sound copy.; 12mo - 7 to 7-1/2 in. tall; viii, 419 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 84720
- Title
- A Spenser Handbook
- Author
- JONES, H. S. V
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- F. S. Crofts & Co.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1930
- Bookseller catalogs
- >>Poetry; >>England, UK and UK History;
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Littleton, Colorado
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- Gilt
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