Our Lady's Choir: A Contemporary Anthology of Verse by Catholic Sisters
by Humphries, Bruce (Editor)
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Fine
- Seller
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Hampden, Maine, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Bruc e Humphries, 1931. First Edition, Limited . Hard Cover with Slipcase. Near Fine/Fine. With an introduction by Ralph Adams Cram. Cream Japanese vellum spine over lavender paper-covered boards. Spine titles, ornament on front board gilt; top edge gilt. xxx, 213, [3] pp. One of 500 copies - out of series - printed on Worthy Hand paper and signed by the author on the limitation page. Printed by Fred Athoensen of the Southworth Press, Portland, Maine. Near Fine - slight age toning to spine. In original glassine dust jacket. In slipcase of lavender paper over boards with paper spine label. The slipcase has light soiling, and slightly faded spine, else very good+.
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- Bookseller
- Lippincott Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4918B
- Title
- Our Lady's Choir: A Contemporary Anthology of Verse by Catholic Sisters
- Author
- Humphries, Bruce (Editor)
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover with Slipcase
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, Limited
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Bruc e Humphries
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1931
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry; Philosophy & Religion;
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Lippincott Books
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Hampden, Maine
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- First Edition
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- Jacket
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- Good+
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- Vellum
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- Spine
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- Fine
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- Top Edge Gilt
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- Spine Label
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