Alamo and Other Verses
by Gray, Edward McQueen
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
-
East Granby, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
Florence, New Mexico: Self Published By Edward McQueen Gray, 1898. First edition, 1898, inscribed to a particular person and signed "with the Writer's Compliments" but not the writer's name. Small volume of poems, many with a desert theme, with proceeds of the book to benefit a library in Florence, New Mexico. Red cloth lettered in gilt, 7.25" tall. Some wear and shelf soil to the covers, good hinges, sound text block, slightly age-toned but clean pages with the aforenoted inscription on front free endpaper, no other markings elsewhere in book.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Resource Books, LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 035513
- Title
- Alamo and Other Verses
- Author
- Gray, Edward McQueen
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Self Published By Edward McQueen Gray
- Place of Publication
- Florence, New Mexico
- Date Published
- 1898
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Keywords
- NEW MEXICO NM DESERT POEMS POETRY VERSE
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction, Literature, Poetry, Literary History;
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About the Seller
Resource Books, LLC
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East Granby, Connecticut
About Resource Books, LLC
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- New
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- 12mo
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- Cloth
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- First Edition
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- Inscribed
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- 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...