The Lay of Love and Death of Cornet Christopher Rilke
by Rilke, Rainer Maria
- Used
- good
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
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Dover, New Hampshire, United States
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About This Item
London: Lindsay Drummond, 1948. Cloth. Good/Good. Gray cloth in price clipped jacket. 81 pp. Text in German and English. Bilingual edition of this prose poem by German poet, one of his earlier works, and most popular. GOOD condition. Moderate toning and uneven offsetting to the jacket, with minor soiling and foxing. Heavy chipping to the head and tail of the spine, with some loss and associated creasing. Moderate foxing to the cloth binding. Minor soiling. Light toning to the text block.
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- Bookseller
- Mare Booksellers (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 019678
- Title
- The Lay of Love and Death of Cornet Christopher Rilke
- Author
- Rilke, Rainer Maria
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Lindsay Drummond
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1948
- Keywords
- Noisbn
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
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- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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....
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...