TWO POEMS OF SWINBURNE'S PRIVATELY PRINTED AT CHRISTMAS MDCCCXXX
by Swinburne, Algernon Charles
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
-
Princeton, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
Privately Printed, 1930. Edition includes "The Triumph of Time" and "Felise". One copy printed in December 1930. Unpaginated. Green board covers and green cloth spine with gilt lettering. Cover boards are very worn with rubbed corners, edges with board exposed. Water damage to front and back edge, chipping on cover faces, marks and dirt smudges. Spine ends are bent and fraying. Gilt top page edge. Untrimmed page edges. Staining from water damage to front cover seeped onto front endpaper and first pages edges and in small amount on back endpaper edges. Cracks to hinges. Foxing throughout interior, but text is easily legible. Book in Fair condition. Scarce as this is the only copy printed.. Boards. Fair. Size: Approx. 6 1/4" x 9". Poetry.
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- Bookseller
- Bee Creek Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006061
- Title
- TWO POEMS OF SWINBURNE'S PRIVATELY PRINTED AT CHRISTMAS MDCCCXXX
- Author
- Swinburne, Algernon Charles
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Publisher
- Privately Printed
- Date Published
- 1930
- Keywords
- Poetry, Poems, Limited Edition
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry; Limited Editions;
- Size
- Size: Approx. 6 1/4" x 9"
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About the Seller
Bee Creek Books
Biblio member since 2010
Princeton, New Jersey
About Bee Creek Books
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- 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....
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
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