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MY SAD CAPTAINS and Other Poems
by THOM GUNN
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
LONDON: FABER AND FABER LTD, 1961 Plum cloth boards with gilt blocked titles to spine, 220 x 145 mm approx. 52 pp. First Edition 1961. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. Very Good/ Very Good (Book - mild shelf wear to cloth, coffee splash to top edge of book block - affecting up to 5mm to top margin of some leaves near gutter. No previous owner name or insc. Dust Jacket - some tanning around spine with rubbing - loss of up to 4 mm in depth head and tail and a 15 mm approx tear to top front panel, non price clipped - cover 12s6d in a removable proprietary protective sleeve. No other notable defects to book or jacket)
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Details
- Bookseller
- booksonlinebrighton
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 133225
- Title
- MY SAD CAPTAINS and Other Poems
- Author
- THOM GUNN
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- FABER AND FABER LTD
- Place of Publication
- LONDON
- Date Published
- 1961
- Keywords
- My Sad Captains, Thom Gunn, Poetry, First Edition.
Terms of Sale
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- Jacket
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- 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....
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- 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...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
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