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The Beckoning Skyline and other poems (Signed By Author)
by Milligan, James Lewis
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Hyde, Cheshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Toronto Canada: McClelland & Stewart, Ltd, 1920. Inscription signed by author to title page. Also note in author's hand explaining to whom one poem referred. No other marks. No creasing to covers, slight crease down sunned spine. Very clean very tight pages with slightly foxed unmarked boards, rubbing to ends of spine, dusty page edges and bumping to lower corners. Fore and lower page edges untrimmed. 111pp. Sixty-nine poems from the Canadian poet. Scarce in the UK.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8 x 5.25 inches.
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- Bookseller
- Godley Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 026967
- Title
- The Beckoning Skyline and other poems (Signed By Author)
- Author
- Milligan, James Lewis
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- McClelland & Stewart, Ltd
- Place of Publication
- Toronto Canada
- Date Published
- 1920
- Size
- 8 x 5.25 inches
- Keywords
- Poetry, Poems
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature / Authors / Poetry;
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- Edges
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- First Edition
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Rubbing
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- Jacket
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- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...
- 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....
- Sunned
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