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Milton and the English Revolution
by HILL, Christopher
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0670476129
- ISBN 13
- 9780670476121
- Seller
-
Galena, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Viking Press, 1977. Hardcover. Small 4to. Grey cloth spine with gilt lettering and green paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. xviii, 541pp. Near fine/near fine. Small front pastedown ownership signature of literature professor and critic John D. Soley (1935-2016), whose graduate thesis was "John Milton's Idea of the 'Right Poet'." Handsome, tight first edition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 46146
- Title
- Milton and the English Revolution
- Author
- HILL, Christopher
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0670476129
- ISBN 13
- 9780670476121
- Publisher
- The Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1977
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books; Literary Criticism;
Terms of Sale
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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About the Seller
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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Galena, Illinois
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- First Edition
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
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