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COLLECTED POEMS, 1917-1952
by MacLeish, Archibald
- Used
- Signed
- Condition
- Very Good binding/Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1952. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Good dust jacket. Octavo. viii, 407 pp. First edition, early printing. Signed and inscribed by MacLeish on the front free endpaper. In publisher's cloth binding with titled in silver on the spine with author's initials boldly blocked in silver on the front cover. Binding is a bit sunned at the board edges; contents are clean; dust jacket is worn with early tape repairs in several place on the back; spine sunned; price intact on the front flap; despite the wear, it presents fairly well in a mylar cover. A nice collection of early poetry by the decorated poet, winner of multiple Pulitzer's in poetry and drama as well as the National Book Award.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Michael Pyron, Bookseller, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6668
- Title
- COLLECTED POEMS, 1917-1952
- Author
- MacLeish, Archibald
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good binding
- Jacket Condition
- Good dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1952
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry; Literature and Fiction;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Michael Pyron, Bookseller, ABAA
Biblio member since 2011
Conshohocken, Pennsylvania
About Michael Pyron, Bookseller, ABAA
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Publisher's cloth
- A hardcover book comprised of cloth over hard pasteboard boards. ...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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....
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
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