The Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning [Cambridge Edition]
by Browning, Robert
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good (+)/No Jacket
- Seller
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Long Beach, Washington, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1895 The Cambridge Edition is intended as the complete works in a single portable volume for the convenience of students and Browning lovers. From the collection of Texas lawyer R.D. Coughanour, his bookplate to the front ep. Condition notes: (xviii), 1,033 numbered pp; HB. Pages: clean, ivory, a bit loose, t.e.g., portrait frontis w/ tissue guard; a.e. sunned, front hinge cracked w/ front board wiggly, messy attempted erasure to half title. Cover: green, gilt ornamentation and name front, gilt titles spine; modest shelfwear, extrems moderately worn spine sunned and a bit stained.
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- Bookseller
- Independent Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 036702
- Title
- The Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning [Cambridge Edition]
- Author
- Browning, Robert
- Format/Binding
- Decorative Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Good (+)
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Apparent First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1895
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- Literature
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- Bookplate
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- Cracked
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- Sunned
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- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Gilt
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- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- 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....
- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
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