KING LOG
by HILL, Geoffrey:
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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York, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Andre Deutsch. 1968. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Publisher's original brown cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper featuring an illustration from a fifteenth century edition of Aesop. A very good copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth bright and fresh. The contents, toned and with some spotting to margins and closed text block edge, are otherwise clean and without previous owner's inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the very lightly rubbed and creased dustwrapper that is faded to the spine and lightly spotted to the rear panel. Not price-clipped (21s to the lower front flap). Signed and dated 15.11.68 by Geoffrey Hill in blue ink on the front free endpaper. A collection of 18 poems and a short essay. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lucius Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 25261
- Title
- KING LOG
- Author
- HILL, Geoffrey:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First edition, first printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London: Andre Deutsch. 1968
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Lucius Books
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York, North Yorkshire
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- 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....
- 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....
- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- 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...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...