Beowulf [#117/950, Limited Edition - Rockwell Kent illus.]
by Leonard, William Ellery (verse translation)
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Fine/Poor
- Seller
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Kutztown, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York: Random House, 1932. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Illustrator(s). Limited Edition. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Gray and white buckram, lettered/illus. in white, deckled text block edges. 148 pp., illus. w/ 8 lithographs by Rockwell Kent. No. 117 of an edition limited to 950 copies printed by Pynson Printers (New York), hand-numbered and with Kent's thumb print on rear colophon. Though hard to spot because of the variegated cloth binding, the front cover may show slight tanning toward the edges, with minor foxing noted to deckled text block edges. Rear flyleaf appears to have been neatly excised along binding gutter, though perhaps original to issue (rear colophon is followed by two blanks, and the paper used for the endpapers is consistent with that used throughout the text block), interior otherwise fully intact and about as issued. Original gray paper dust jacket is in 5 pieces, reassembled with minimal archival tape on verso and now in mylar..
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- Bookseller
- Saucony Book Shop
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- MK030
- Title
- Beowulf [#117/950, Limited Edition - Rockwell Kent illus.]
- Author
- Leonard, William Ellery (verse translation)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Poor
- Edition
- Limited Edition
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1932
- Size
- Folio - over 12" - 15"
- Bookseller catalogs
- Imprints & Bindings;
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Saucony Book Shop
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About the Seller
Saucony Book Shop
Biblio member since 2005
Kutztown, Pennsylvania
About Saucony Book Shop
The Saucony Book Shop, located in the heart of scenic rural Berks County, epicenter of Pennsylvania German folk culture (our shop specialty), offers a full range of gently used, rare, and antiquarian books, with many volumes of scholarly merit and an unabashed emphasis on the quaint, the curious, and the utterly obscure. We make no attempt to be a general-service book shop. Our inventory is highly selective, individually chosen from among the hundreds of thousands of books to which we have access annually at auctions, library and estate sales, and through individual scouts and vendors. We do not handle material that does not meet our expectations in terms of condition or interest to our specialized, idiosyncratic customers. Despite maintaining a browsing inventory of more than 15,000 volumes, we have minimized our carbon footprint by maintaining our entire operation in a cozy ca. 1890 barn and lean-to adjacent to an historic creamery in rural Maxatawny Township. Our shop is available for browsing by appointment and occasionally, in temperate weather, by chance, so email or call ahead to peruse the eclectic selection gracing our shelves, or ask our ferociously over-read staff for recommendations. Selling antiquarian books of merit since 1981. Full search and appraisal services; always keenly interested in purchasing quality used books, whether by the piece or by the bushel. Thanks for reading about us! Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.
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- Colophon
- The colophon contains information about a book's publisher, the typesetting, printer, and possibly even includes a printer's...
- 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...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- 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....
- Folio
- A folio usually indicates a large book size of 15" in height or larger when used in the context of a book description. Further,...
- 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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