The Collected Verse of Lewis Carroll
by Lewis Carroll [pseud. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson]; John Tenniel, Arthur B. Frost, Henry Holiday, Harry Furniss [illus.]
- Used
- very good
- 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: The Macmillan Company, 1933. Very Good/Very Good. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1933. First Thus (preceded in the US by a 1929 E.P. Dutton & Co. edition). Octavo; xiv, 445pp. Gray dust jacket with blue and black lettering over blue cloth with gilt to front and spine. Jacket price present but blacked out, with jacket showing a number of small tears and creasing along top edge and a chip at head of spine with a closed tear down top back joint, as well as some general toning to spine and back panel. Boards spotted and foxed along with fading along top edge, down spine, and to back. Spine cocked. Endpapers a bit toned, but interior is bright, clean, and unmarked. Binding is sound.
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- Bookseller
- Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9543
- Title
- The Collected Verse of Lewis Carroll
- Author
- Lewis Carroll [pseud. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson]; John Tenniel, Arthur B. Frost, Henry Holiday, Harry Furniss [illus.]
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The Macmillan Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1933
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- E.P.
- The double leaves bound into a book at the front and rear after ...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...