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Fireflies
by Tagore, Rabindranath
- Used
- very good
- Condition
- Very good/Very good +
- ISBN 10
- 0026159805
- ISBN 13
- 9780026159807
- Seller
-
Helena, Montana, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Macmillan, 1976. Reprint. Black cloth. Very good/Very good +. 28th printing, very good black cloth hardcover shows touch of soil at page edges and some mild tearing and shallow open chipping at fore edges of endpapers, in very good + price-clipped dust jacket that shows edgewear that includes rubbing and small closed chip at top of front panel. 272 pages with decorations by Boris Artzybasheff. Still a pleasing copy of this edition of the noted poet's verse.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Barker Books & Vintage
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 32991
- Title
- Fireflies
- Author
- Tagore, Rabindranath
- Format/Binding
- Black cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Jacket Condition
- Very good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0026159805
- ISBN 13
- 9780026159807
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1976
- Keywords
- Antiques, Collectibles, Billings, Bozeman, Butte, Great Falls, Helena, Missoula, Montana, Used Books, Rare Books
Terms of Sale
Barker Books & Vintage
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Barker Books & Vintage
Biblio member since 2021
Helena, Montana
About Barker Books & Vintage
Welcome to Barker Books & Vintage. We are a brick and mortar retailer of carefully selected books and other paper related product, located in Helena, Montana. We use our office mainly to buy books but are willing to allow perusal of inventory upon request. Our special emphasis on quality books includes a broad range of titles with particular interest given to those being uncommon or collectible. We have been in business close to twenty five years including our new home in Montana. Please call with any questions.
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- 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...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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