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Blue Interval: Poems of Crater Lake
by Moll, Ernest G.; Belser, Karl J. (Illustrator)
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/No Jacket
- Seller
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About This Item
Portland, Oregon: Metropolitan Press, 1935. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Belser, Karl J.. Collection of verse about the Crater Lake National Park in southern Oregon & other elements of Nature. A First Edition, first printing from 1935, SIGNED by the AUTHOR (his name only) on half title page. Delicate pen-and-ink illustrations by Karl Belser throughout. With 41 creamy off-white, deckled edge, vellum-like pages, this slim hardcover has a blue quarter cloth-wrapped spine with lighter blue paper over boards, gilt lettering to spine. Condition is Near Fine, downgraded solely due to sunning to spine & surrounding cloth. Else, AS NEW: completely clean, binding tight & square, hinges secure. Pages white & unmarked. Former owner's bookplate inside front cover. No DJ, likely as issued. Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same day shipping on all orders received Weekdays by 2 pm (PST); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day.
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- Bookseller
- Gargoyle Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 020040
- Title
- Blue Interval: Poems of Crater Lake
- Author
- Moll, Ernest G.; Belser, Karl J. (Illustrator)
- Illustrator
- Belser, Karl J.
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition First Printing
- Publisher
- Metropolitan Press
- Place of Publication
- Portland, Oregon
- Date Published
- 1935
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- OREGON POETRY POETS VERSE NATURE NATIONAL PARKS LAKES ILLUSTRATED SIGNED WRITERS
- Bookseller catalogs
- Signed Books; Literature/Literary Criticism/Poetry/Short Stories; Californiana;
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