Poems.
by BISHOP, Elizabeth
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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LONDON, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Chatto & Windus, London., 1956. First edition. Small octavo. 40 pages. Boards. The author's first book to be published in the U.K., twenty poems selected from her 1955 collection. Head and tail of spine slightly bumped, otherwise fine in very near fine dustwrapper. Scarce, which is hardly surprising given only 500 copies were printed.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Peter Ellis bookseller (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BISHOPEL013100
- Title
- Poems.
- Author
- BISHOP, Elizabeth
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus, London.
- Date Published
- 1956
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About the Seller
Peter Ellis bookseller
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LONDON
About Peter Ellis bookseller
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- First Edition
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- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- 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
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