Ariel
by Plath, Sylvia; Robert Lowell (Intro)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket
- Seller
-
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Harper & Row. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1966. First American Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 85 pages; 1966 Harper & Row. HC/DJ. 1st American edition with 1st edition stated and D-Q date code on copyright page. Very snugly bound and neat in original title lettered dust jacket. Black cloth lettered in robin's egg blue to spine. No marks of any kind. Dust jacket is sharp and crisp at edges but is price clipped to front flap; 0666 date code intact o bottom corner. Jacket a trifle toned at spine and with a mild damp stain base of spine and shallow areas of the covers adjacent. No evidence of this to the boards but a hint of pink offset to shallow dime sized areas of the endpages near the tail. Several poems added to this American edition, not included in the UK issue. Tight neat copy with a mild damp blemish to the base of the jacket spine area. NF/VG .
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Details
- Bookseller
- DogStar Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 53187
- Title
- Ariel
- Author
- Plath, Sylvia; Robert Lowell (Intro)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First American Edition; First Printing
- Publisher
- Harper & Row
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1966
Terms of Sale
DogStar Books
15 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 15 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
DogStar Books
Biblio member since 2020
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
About DogStar Books
DogStar Books is an open-shop used and rare book store located in historic Lancaster PA. We have been buying and selling scholarly, antiquarian and better books, images, and paper since 1991. We maintain a large general collection of over 40,000 titles on premises to serve our local book loving clientele. Out of town visitors and buyers are always welcome. Our online inventory at Biblio began in 2020 and we will be increasing our inventory here on a regular basis.
Glossary
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- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
- 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....
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Offset
- A technique of printing where the inked image or text is ...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
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