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TAKUBOKU: POEMS TO EAT
by ISHIKAWA TAKUBOKU
- Used
- Condition
- Very Good +
- Seller
-
Chamblee, Georgia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Japan: Kodansha International Ltd, 1972. First Edition, Fifth Printing. Hardback. Very Good +. First Edition, Fifth Printing. Quarter forest green cloth over beige paper-covered boards with titling in white compartment to spine and front board. Housed in publisher's original pictorial paper-covered slipcase. Tan wrap around with book description has small closed tear at spine. Pages are clean and unmarked. Text block is lightly foxed. Boards have light soiling to lower edge but are otherwise clean and unmarked; bumping to top corner of rear board. Binding is tight and square. Slipcase is clean and bright with light rubbing to edges and corners; indented scratch to rear board.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Atlanta Vintage Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 64367
- Title
- TAKUBOKU: POEMS TO EAT
- Author
- ISHIKAWA TAKUBOKU
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, Fifth Printing
- Publisher
- Kodansha International Ltd
- Place of Publication
- Japan
- Date Published
- 1972
- Keywords
- Poetry
Terms of Sale
Atlanta Vintage Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Atlanta Vintage Books
Biblio member since 2007
Chamblee, Georgia
About Atlanta Vintage Books
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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.
- 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....
- 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....
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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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