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Selected Poems of Robert Browning (The Modern Readers' Series)
by Browning, Robert
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Granville, New York, United States
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About This Item
NY: Macmillan, 1927. First edition thus. The Modern Readers' Series. Half leather. Published NY: Macmillan, 1927, first printing. 12mo., 5 1/4" x 7 1/4", xx+453pp. Edited with an introduction by Lincoln R. Gibbs. Half green leather over green linen cloth with gilt spine titles and designs, top edge gilting, pictorial endpapers. Chip at the crown, sun darkening to the spine, faint bleed darkening to pastedowns at contact areas of binder's underlay, previous owner bookplate on pastedown. Very good, tight, crisp. . 1st. Hard. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo.
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- Bookseller
- The Wild Muse
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 009451
- Title
- Selected Poems of Robert Browning (The Modern Readers' Series)
- Author
- Browning, Robert
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- 1st
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1927
- Size
- 12mo
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry; Literary & Modern First Editions;
Terms of Sale
The Wild Muse
Returnable within 10 days.
About the Seller
The Wild Muse
Biblio member since 2005
Granville, New York
About The Wild Muse
Literary and modern first editions. Established 1985. Mail order only.
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