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Polite Essays
by POUND, Ezra
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Dust Jacket Included
- Seller
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Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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About This Item
London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Dust Jacket Included. London, Faber and Faber Limited, 1937. Octavo, viii (first two blank), 207 pages. Red cloth; top edge dyed yellow-green, bottom edge uncut; tiny bump to the foot of the rear joint; essentially a fine copy with the price-clipped dustwrapper sunned and a little marked on the spine, with minor loss to silverfish to the front panel and spine. Seventeen essays, including 'James Joyce et Pécuchet' (in French) and 'Mr. Eliot's Solid Merit'. Gallup A42a: 'Published 11 February 1937 at 7s. 6d.; 2000 copies printed ... 700 sets of sheets with reprinted title-leaf and conjugate were imported by New Directions and specially bound and jacketed for sale in the United States'.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 136202
- Title
- Polite Essays
- Author
- POUND, Ezra
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Dust Jacket Included
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1937
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers
Biblio member since 2006
Adelaide, South Australia
About Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers
The business was established in Adelaide in March 1976 and is a longstanding member of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Antiquarian Booksellers (ANZAAB) and the Australian Antique Dealers Association (AADA). A large out-of-print and antiquarian stock is maintained at our retail outlet in the centre of Adelaide; mail-order catalogues of our specializations are issued and a representative selection of our stock is online.
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- First Edition
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- New
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- Dustwrapper
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- Fine
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- Octavo
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- Sunned
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- Jacket
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