The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allen Poe
by Poe, Edgar Allan; Hervey Allen
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket
- Seller
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Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York: Modern Library. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1963. reprint. Hardcover. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 1026 pages; [1963] Modern Library. Stout HC/DJ. Dated to 1963 by the ML catalog on the reverse of the jacket. Snugly bound and clean in original blue cloth lettered in gilt. Pictorial dust jacket is generally bright and clean but with a closed 2 inch tear from along the rear hinge crease and some light scuffing to the spine surface. Mild generaly shelf rubbing to jacket edges. VG/+VG- .
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Details
- Bookseller
- DogStar Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 51877
- Title
- The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allen Poe
- Author
- Poe, Edgar Allan; Hervey Allen
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket
- Edition
- reprint
- Publisher
- Modern Library
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1963
Terms of Sale
DogStar Books
15 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 15 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
DogStar Books
Biblio member since 2020
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
About DogStar Books
DogStar Books is an open-shop used and rare book store located in historic Lancaster PA. We have been buying and selling scholarly, antiquarian and better books, images, and paper since 1991. We maintain a large general collection of over 40,000 titles on premises to serve our local book loving clientele. Out of town visitors and buyers are always welcome. Our online inventory at Biblio began in 2020 and we will be increasing our inventory here on a regular basis.
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- 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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