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John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley: Complete Poetical Works (With the Explanatory Notes of Shelley's Poems by Mrs. Shelley) (Modern Library Giant #4.1)
by KEATS, John; SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good in Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Modern Library / Random House. Very Good in Good dust jacket. [c.1944]. Hardcover. A Modern Library Giant edition offering the complete poetical output of these two great English poets. Really two volumes in one, the works of John Keats are presented first, then those of Percy Bysshe Shelley in this colossal volume. With the explanatory notes of Shelley's poems by Mrs. Shelley [Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley]. In red dust jacket with images of the two poets on cover. --- In Toledano spine G5 / pale green cloth / gilt titling on green cover & spine blocks / plain GA style endpapers / jacket style Gd / verso advertises 358 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1951 (no publication date appears in book). ML #G4.1. --- With age-toning to leaves and New York bookseller label to rear paste-down, otherwise a clean, tightly-bound, unmarked copy. Unpriced, unclipped dust jacket with severely sunned spine (making titling barely readable), and a few mild creases; otherwise intact and protected in new removable mylar wrapper. (NOTE: Due to the weight of this item, extra shipping charges may be requested for shipments beyond the U.S.) ; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; vii, [2], 398, xix, 914 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 88248
- Title
- John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley: Complete Poetical Works (With the Explanatory Notes of Shelley's Poems by Mrs. Shelley) (Modern Library Giant #4.1)
- Author
- KEATS, John; SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Good dust jacket
- Publisher
- The Modern Library / Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- [c.1944]
- Bookseller catalogs
- >>Poetry;
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About Bluebird Books
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