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Sky Rockets
by Mead, Leon
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
-
St. Paul, Minnesota, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Published by the Author, 1883. First edition. Hardcover. Good. 18 x 14 cm. 12mo. 100pp. Bound in green cloth with gilt lettering. Signed and inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper. Fraying to head and tail of spine. Front gutter cracked. There is a newspaper clipping of a poem affixed to the verso of the title page.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Midway Used and Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 72156
- Title
- Sky Rockets
- Author
- Mead, Leon
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Published by the Author
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1883
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
Terms of Sale
Midway Used and Rare Books
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About the Seller
Midway Used and Rare Books
Biblio member since 2005
St. Paul, Minnesota
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- 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...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- 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....
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
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