THE FLEETING AND OTHER POEMS
by DE LA MARE, WALTER
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good/No d/w
- Seller
-
Skreen, Sligo, Ireland
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About This Item
London: Constable, 1933. Book. Good. Cloth. Signed by Author(s). First Edition.. xi + 179pp; Spotted to eps and edges and covers sunned else a bright copy; Signed by author to ff.e.p. with a pencil-written note by previous owner describing the occasion of the signing-"As Walter de la Mare was writing his name I said 'I feel I ought to have paid double for this book!' 'Only double?' he replied. Of these poems he read Peeping Tom, The Snowdrop." Size: 12mo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Weathered Stone Books (IE)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006044
- Title
- THE FLEETING AND OTHER POEMS
- Author
- DE LA MARE, WALTER
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No d/w
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Publisher
- Constable
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1933
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Weathered Stone Books
Biblio member since 2018
Skreen, Sligo
About Weathered Stone Books
In operation since 1982 as The Winding Stair Bookshop, Dublin until 2005. Then in USA as Wandering Star Books an online bookseller also conducting appraisals for private collectors and institutions. Now back in Ireland and living in beautiful Sligo with views of the Atlantic and selling online.
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- First Edition
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- Edges
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- Cloth
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- Sunned
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