Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. 1959. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Good+ in a Good dust jacket. Owner personalizations on FEP and rear end page. Front hinge starting and held by tape. Large open ter on rear panel bottom corner. Small open tears on spine crown and heel and panel corners. Small closed tears on top and bottom front and rear panel and rear gutter. Shelfwear on panel edges. Foxing on top text block edge and rear panel. .

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Bookseller: Rare Book Cellar (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 311719
Title: HOW DOES A POEM MEAN?
Author: John Ciardi
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
Place of Publication: Boston
Date Published: 1959

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Gutter: The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
Text Block: Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
Heel: The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
Hinge: The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
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...
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....
Good+: A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...