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Stray Birds with Frontispiece By Willy Pogany
by Tagore, Rabindranath
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Rapid River, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
St. Martin's Street, London: MacMillan & Co., Limited, 1917. 1917 date at title page without stated copyright date. Scarce first edition printed by MacMillan & Company of London. Fine navy cloth boards, gilt embossed cover and spine titles, moderate shelf, corner, edge wear, discoloration, some rub. Beautifully and richly colored frontispiece plate by Willy Pogany. Painting portray gowned lady with shawl peering out window into nature among pillared column. Rough cut deckled leaves, generally good, clean; some fox at first few and varying toning throughout. Few with page with bracketing and antiquarian signature pencilled at blank front endpaper: "... Shanghai, August 24, 1917." Few leaves remain uncut along top edge. Bind good, square; hinges intact. Four pages at back with other available titles by Sir Rabindranath Tagore with summaries from Macmillan and Company. Attractive, near good first edition. Dedication: "To T. Hara of Yokohama." Printed by R. & R. Clarke, Limited, Edinburgh. 84 pages. Insured post.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall.
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- Bookseller
- BiblioStax
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 021993
- Title
- Stray Birds with Frontispiece By Willy Pogany
- Author
- Tagore, Rabindranath
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- MacMillan & Co., Limited
- Place of Publication
- St. Martin's Street, London
- Date Published
- 1917
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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BiblioStax
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Rapid River, Michigan
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Glossary
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- 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...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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...
- 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....
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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