The Land of Heart's Desire
by Yeats, William Butler
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- Seller
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Chico, California, United States
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About This Item
Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, 1900. This short play by Yeats was produced at the Avenue Theatre in 1894. This is a Near Fine copy of the Third Printing of the Mosher edition, which was LIMITED to 950 copies. Gray paper boards with paper labels on the spine and front. Handmade paper. 33 pages, many unopened here. There is a previous-owner bookplate on the front paste-down, else Fine. Also present is the very scarce glassine dustjacket, which is complete but has several chips and wrinkles. In an archival plastic protector. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Limited. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quercus Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001438
- Title
- The Land of Heart's Desire
- Author
- Yeats, William Butler
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- Limited
- Publisher
- Thomas B. Mosher
- Place of Publication
- Portland, Maine
- Date Published
- 1900
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Literature (Irish Authors);
Terms of Sale
Quercus Rare Books
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About the Seller
Quercus Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Chico, California
About Quercus Rare Books
Quercus Books seeks out and provides to the discriminating Reader or Collector noteworthy books in the First Edition. Our particular focus is on Modern Literature (roughly from the Second World War to the present) and Irish Authors. We also retain a small stock of non-fiction titles, mostly in the fields of American Western History, American Indians, and the American Civil War. Member of IOBA - the Independent Online Booksellers Association.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Unopened
- A state in which all or some of the pages of a book have not been separated from the adjacent pages, caused by a traditional...
- 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....
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...