The Book of Ballads
by MacEdwaed Leach
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Like New
- Seller
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Southampton, New York, United States
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About This Item
Limited Editions Club, 1967. Limited. Hardcover. Like New. First Edition Thus, First Printing (Copy #255 of 1,500). Published by The Limited Editions Club, 1967. Octavo. Teal cloth over red patterned boards with beveled edges, a paper spine label, and blue stopstain. In light blue paper over boards slipcase with paper spine label. Signed by artist Fritz Kredel on limitation page in back. Book is like new; clean with no writing or names. Binding tight and pages crisp. Sharp corners and spine straight. Slipcase has some light shelf wear with rubbing at a few corners and light tearing along top edge. A lovely copy of this beautifully illustrated edition of classic folk ballads selected and edited by MacEdward Leach. 215 pages. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Southampton, New York.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Southampton Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 91915
- Title
- The Book of Ballads
- Author
- MacEdwaed Leach
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New Like New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Limited
- Publisher
- Limited Editions Club
- Date Published
- 1967
- Keywords
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Terms of Sale
Southampton Books
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About the Seller
Southampton Books
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Southampton, New York
About Southampton Books
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- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- 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...
- Spine Label
- The paper or leather descriptive tag attached to the spine of the book, most commonly providing the title and author of the...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Beveled
- Beveled edges, or beveled boards, describe a technique of binding in which the edges of book boards have been cut into slanted...