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On Bear's Head
by WHALEN, Philip
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good/Very good
- Seller
-
Asheville, North Carolina, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Harcourt, 1969. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Octavo. 5.5 x 8.25 in. 406 in. Very good in original red and maroon cloth, previous owner signature of the poet Merrill Gilfillan on front free endpaper, mild soiling to edge of text block, and very good in original pictorial dust jacket, general rubbing with light chipping. Last ten pages of book include black & white facsimiles of Whalen's illustrated poems.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bagatelle Books, IOBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4948
- Title
- On Bear's Head
- Author
- WHALEN, Philip
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Jacket Condition
- Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Publisher
- Harcourt
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1969
Terms of Sale
Bagatelle Books, IOBA
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Bagatelle Books, IOBA
Biblio member since 2019
Asheville, North Carolina
About Bagatelle Books, IOBA
We are a brick-and-mortar independent bookstore in West Asheville, North Carolina.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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