The Collected Verse of Lewis Carroll
by Lewis Carroll [pseud. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson]; John Francis McDermott [intro.]
- Used
- very good
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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About This Item
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co, 1929. Very Good/Very Good. New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1929. First American Edition. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's cloth-backed boards, gilt printed paper labels to front cover and spine, pink price-clipped dust jacket lettered in blue; xxxviii,228pp. Chipping and short closed tears to jacket extremities including shallow loss at spine foot and larger loss at spine crown (neither approaching text though spine cloth toned where exposed), jacket spine panel quite toned with a few surface scratches, else Very Good overall in a nicer-than-usual dust jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8005
- Title
- The Collected Verse of Lewis Carroll
- Author
- Lewis Carroll [pseud. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson]; John Francis McDermott [intro.]
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- E.P. Dutton & Co
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1929
Terms of Sale
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
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About the Seller
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
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Washington, District of Columbia
About Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
Capitol Hill Books is a used bookstore in the Eastern Market neighborhood of Washington, DC. We have three floors of quality used books, first editions, and rare books.
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- 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...
- E.P.
- The double leaves bound into a book at the front and rear after ...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...