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The Melancholy Teacher - Poems (Signed)
by Morehead, Maureen
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine
- Seller
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Madison, Indiana, United States
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About This Item
Monterey, KY: Larkspur Press, 2010. First (Limited) Edition. Single print run of 450 copies. Signed. Hardcover. Small quarto. 9.5 x 6.5 inches. 54 pp. Fine / Fine. Flat signed by author on title page. Handset in Cloister Lightface type, printed on a hand-fed C&P, then hand-bound. 450 copies were printed on Mohawk Superfine paper. Illustrated with wood engravings cut by Alex Brooks. Design, composition, printing and binding by Deborah Kessler, Leslie Shane, Debbie Shannon, and Gray Zeitz at Larkspur Press. Intact dust jacket. Full olive cloth over board. Paper title label affixed to spine. Case and text block pristine and tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Scarce book of poems by a Poet Laureate of Kentucky.
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- Bookseller
- Village Lights Bookstore, ABAA/ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0000083
- Title
- The Melancholy Teacher - Poems (Signed)
- Author
- Morehead, Maureen
- Illustrator
- Brooks, Alex
- Format/Binding
- Full cloth over board, hand sewn
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition (Limited, Letterpress)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Larkspur Press
- Place of Publication
- Monterey, KY
- Date Published
- 2010
- Pages
- 54
- Size
- Sm 4to
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry; Signed copies; Limited editions;
Terms of Sale
Village Lights Bookstore, ABAA/ILAB
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About the Seller
Village Lights Bookstore, ABAA/ILAB
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Madison, Indiana
About Village Lights Bookstore, ABAA/ILAB
Village Lights Bookstore opened as a brick-and-mortar shop in 2008. We are a "mom & pop" business, and we live in the same building. We are members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America, the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers, the American Booksellers Association, and the Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Association. We offer a modest, but diverse, selection of rare, collectible, and antiquarian items, as well as select higher quality new books. We carefully grade our books in accordance with IOBA Book Condition Definitions (https://www.ioba.org/conditions-definitions), describe them using standard ABAA terminology (https://www.abaa.org/glossary), and painstakingly package them to prevent damage in transit. We value direct communication, so please feel free to call if you have questions about our listings or to confirm that an item is still on hand. And consider visiting us on Main Street in the heart of downtown Madison, Indiana, the country's largest contiguous National Historic Landmark District, and a Designated Indiana Cultural District, on the banks of the beautiful Ohio River.
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- Quarto
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- Text Block
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- Jacket
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- Fine
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