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(Association Copy) Useful and Instructive Poetry
by Carroll, Lewis
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Bloomington, Indiana, United States
Item Price
£318.76£255.01
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1954. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED at front end page -"Enid Shawyer from N. & V. Dodgson June 1954". Presented by descendants of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll, to Carroll's friend Enid Stevens nee Shawyer, who he first met February 21, 1891, and they were friends until his death in 1898. Carroll wrote Useful and Instructive Poetry in 1845 when he was 13 years old for his younger brother and sister. Bound in pictorial cream cloth decorated and lettered in gilt, red and light green in publisher's original acetate dust jacket, Very Good, boards somewhat toned and soiled, in a Very Good acetate and paper dust wrapper, chips to the acetate at the edges. A marvelous Association Copy. . SIGNED AND INSCRIBED. First Edition. Decorative Paper Covered Board. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Association Copy.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Dale Steffey Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 010081
- Title
- (Association Copy) Useful and Instructive Poetry
- Author
- Carroll, Lewis
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Geoffrey Bles
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1954
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature; Poetry;
Terms of Sale
Dale Steffey Books, ABAA
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About the Seller
Dale Steffey Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2006
Bloomington, Indiana
About Dale Steffey Books, ABAA
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- Inscribed
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- Cloth
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- Edges
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- 12mo
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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
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- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Association Copy
- An association copy is a copy of a book which has been signed and inscribed by the author for a personal friend, colleague, or...
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