AMERICAN CHILD: Sonnets for my Daughters with 36 new poems
by Paul Engle
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good +
- Seller
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Blue Hill, Maine, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Dial Press, 1956. Hardcover. Very Good +. 102 p. 5 1/4 x 7 1/2 in. Black cloth spine binding with grey printed paper boards, gilt lettering on spine. Condition of the book is VERY GOOD+: light wear to covers and spine- printing at edges of covers worn, light soiling to covers and spine, light foxing to edge of text block, pages clean, binding tight, signed by author in blue ink, 1957, on ffep.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Andre Strong Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2632
- Title
- AMERICAN CHILD
- Author
- Paul Engle
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The Dial Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1956
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
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Blue Hill, Maine
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....