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Be Angry at the Sun
by Jeffers, Robinson
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Very Good+/Not Issued
- Seller
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Staten Island, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Random Hosue, 1941. Hardcover, small quarto in original special binding of cream colored cloth spine over green, yellow and red marbleized paper, housed in matching marbleized paper coverd slipcase. Printed on Strathmore Olde Laid paper at the Walpole Printing Office, Mount Vernon, New York, by Peter Beilenson. First edition, first printing. One of 100 copies, this being no. 68 signed by Robinson Jeffers on limitation page. Book shows a trace of user wear with a touch of toning to head and heel of back-strip. Interior is untrimmed and fine but for some old tape residue on front and rear pastedowns from prior protective cover. Slipcase shows rubbing to extremities but otherwise is intact. A rare copy of one of the shortest limited edition runs of any of Jeffers books. Very good+ in a near very good slipcase. . Limted/numbered/signed. Hardcover. Very Good+/Not Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Great Expectations Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013569
- Title
- Be Angry at the Sun
- Author
- Jeffers, Robinson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Not Issued
- Edition
- Limted/numbered/signed
- Publisher
- Random Hosue
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1941
- Keywords
- Poetry, Limited Signed Edition
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
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About the Seller
Great Expectations Rare Books
Biblio member since 2005
Staten Island, New York
About Great Expectations Rare Books
We carry a general stock of antiquarian books with a focus on Charles Dickens, 19th and 20th century literature, history and biography.
Glossary
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- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- 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
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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