Cloth of the Tempest
by PATCHEN, Kenneth
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, [1943]. First Edition. Octavo (24.25cm.); original cloth, decorative labels printed in red mounted to upper cover and spine, in white printed dust jacket; [8],185pp.; illus. throughout. Jacket rather toned, most heavily along extremities and spine, dampstain to bottom fore-edge corner of rear panel verso faintly showing through to exterior, else Near Fine in Very Good jacket. Patchen's uncommon sixth book, in which he introduced his "poems-in-drawings" technique.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23499
- Title
- Cloth of the Tempest
- Author
- PATCHEN, Kenneth
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- [1943]
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Poetry; Illustrators;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books
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Winchester, Virginia
About Lorne Bair Rare Books
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- 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...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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....
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.