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A Sailor's Garland
by Masefield, John (ed.)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good, 1st edition, no d/j, ruled blue clothbound boards, gilt spine titling & design (some rubbing); text block firm, pages
- Seller
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Maidenhead, Berkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Methuen & Co, 1906. 1st. hardback. Very good, 1st edition, no d/j, ruled blue clothbound boards, gilt spine titling & design (some rubbing); text block firm, pages untrimmed and unmarked; some foxing on edges. Owner's plate on front pastedown (Frederick Wm Nash). 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). Large collection of maritime verse from across the centuries.
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- Bookseller
- Inklings & Yarnspinners
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- IYC132006
- Title
- A Sailor's Garland
- Author
- Masefield, John (ed.)
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good, 1st edition, no d/j, ruled blue clothbound boards, gilt spine titling & design (some rubbing); text block firm, pages
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Methuen & Co
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1906
- Pages
- 328 + 40
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- 1st, poetry, anthology, Masefield, Poet Laureate, Britain, Empire, Naval
- Bookseller catalogs
- 2nd-hand books;
- Size
- 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_\"\" x 5\"\")
Terms of Sale
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30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Inklings & Yarnspinners
Biblio member since 2021
Maidenhead, Berkshire
About Inklings & Yarnspinners
INKLINGS & YARNSPINNERSA new online bookshop forFIRST & SIGNED EDITIONS, RARE BOOKSA particular focus on:- The Oxford Inklings with their Friends & Influences (C.S. Lewis, Tolkien, Barfield, Williams, Chesterton, Macdonald, Sayers, etc)- Great 20th Century Novelists (e.g. Graham Greene & John le Carré; Anthony Powell & Evelyn Waugh; P. D. James etc)- Great 20th Century Poets (e.g. T. S. Eliot, John Masefield, Walter de la Mare, Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Stevie Smith, W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender, Dylan Thomas, etc)- Christian Theology (e.g. from library sales)
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 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...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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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