Conquistador
by MacLeish, Archibald
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good - Very Good/Fair
- Seller
-
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company / Riverside Press Cambridge, 1932 Book. Good - Very Good. Hard Cover - Cloth. Author's Signature Included. First Edition / First Printing. Octavo. ii + 114 pp + fold-out map. Author's signature laid in on loose bookmark sized paper, Previous owner's bookplate inside fr pastedown, Binding tight, pages unmarked but slightly age-toned, endpapers with some age-toning, covers almost Very Good with little wear to cloth but some age to coloring & gilt spine lettering - text block top edge stained gray as published. Unclipped DJ chipped and worn almost an inch around spine top, and front forecorner, DJ spine heavily sun-tanned, and browned all over. 6.4" x 9.5" red cloth boards in DJ.
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Details
- Bookseller
- West Side Book Shop, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004774
- Title
- Conquistador
- Author
- MacLeish, Archibald
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Edition
- First Edition / First Printing
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company / Riverside Press Cambridge
- Place of Publication
- Boston and New York
- Date Published
- 1932
- Keywords
- Epic Poem - American Poet - Early Explorer Bernal Diaz Western Hemisphere
- Size
- Octavo
Terms of Sale
West Side Book Shop, ABAA
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About the Seller
West Side Book Shop, ABAA
Biblio member since 2006
Ann Arbor, Michigan
About West Side Book Shop, ABAA
West Side Book Shop, Located in downtown Ann Arbor, was established in 1975 by Jay Platt, a member of the ABAA. West Side Book Shop offers a wide selection of used and rare books.
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- First Edition
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- Bookplate
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- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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....
- 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...
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