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On the Green Carpet
by Coffin, Robert P. Tristram
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- Hardcover
- Signed
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Deep River, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
Indianapolis, Ind.: Bobbs-Merrill, 1951. Reprint ?. Near fine in its original light green, cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine and on the front board. An octavo of 8 1/2 by 5 3/4 inches. In a very good+, unclipped dust jacket with 1/4 inch deep chips across the upper edge of the spine area and with soiling to the rear panel. Warmly signed and inscribed by the author to the "daughter of a great friend" together with a wonderful and delicately drawn, pen and ink image of a humming bird with its bill in a flower.on the third free end page. 277 pages of text illustrated with seven plates from woodcuts and pen and ink drawings by the author. A book on the art of poetry by this Maine author and Pulitzer Prize winning poet told from the basis of seven lectures he gave which includes 20 of his poems not previously published in book form.
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- Bookseller
- Town's End Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- TB32832
- Title
- On the Green Carpet
- Author
- Coffin, Robert P. Tristram
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- Reprint ?
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Bobbs-Merrill
- Place of Publication
- Indianapolis, Ind.
- Date Published
- 1951
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- 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...
- Fine
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- Jacket
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- 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....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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