The Last Ditch
by MacNeice, Louis
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/very good
- ISBN 10
- 0716513897
- ISBN 13
- 9780716513896
- Seller
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Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Shannon, Ireland: T.M. MacGlinchey, 1971. Hardcover. Fine/very good. [4], 33, [3] p.; 21 cm. Light orange-brown cloth spine with grey paper over boards. Black cover title. Original glassine dustjacket. Grey endpapers. Loose, as issued, 1 leaf printed in red indicating that this is one of a limited edition of 450 copies (presumably in reference to the original 1940 edition). Colophon printed in red indicating that the Cuala Press printed 450 copies in 1940 and that this is part of the 1971 reprint by photo-lithography for the Irish University Press by Robert Hogg, printer. Scarce. Book is in Fine Condition: clean and bright. Glassine dust jacket is in Very Good Condition: 1-cm. closed tear from upper edge on either side at head of spine; otherwise, clean and intact.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Classic Books and Ephemera (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004290
- Title
- The Last Ditch
- Author
- MacNeice, Louis
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0716513897
- ISBN 13
- 9780716513896
- Publisher
- T.M. MacGlinchey
- Place of Publication
- Shannon, Ireland
- Date Published
- 1971
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
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- Reprint
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