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On the Green Carpet
by Coffin, Robert P. Tristram
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
Indianapolis: Bobbs Merrill, 1951. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. Clean hardcover book in original unclipped dust jacket. Clean green cloth boards with gold lettering on cover and spine. No bumping, fading or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Previous owner inscription on front free endpaper. Pages are clean, with very nice illustrations throughout. 277 pages. Dust jacket is clean, not price clipped, has lightrubbing and edge wear; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Maine poet Robert P. Tristram Coffin writes poetry and about poetry, and speaks of rural life and the country as the materials of thebest and most enduring poetry. He tells how religion, too, was born inthe country and nourished in country soil, and he argues that country living inculcates certain strengths and virtues not nourished in the man-made cities..
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 32195
- Title
- On the Green Carpet
- Author
- Coffin, Robert P. Tristram
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Publisher
- Bobbs Merrill
- Place of Publication
- Indianapolis
- Date Published
- 1951
- Keywords
- NATURE, POETRY, COUNTRY LIVING, RURAL LIFE, ROBERT P. TRISTRAM COFFIN, MAINE, NEW ENGLAND
- Bookseller catalogs
- Nature; Country Living; New England;
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About the Seller
Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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Stanley, New York
About Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
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