THE OXFORD BOOK OF ENGLISH VERSE 1250 - 1918
by Quiller-Couch, Arthur
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+ with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Campbeltown, Argyll and Bute, United Kingdom
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About This Item
United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1948. Second Edition; Third Printing. Hardcover. Good 1948 reprint hardcover with no dustjacket. Clean blue cloth boards with gilt titles to front and spine. Spine lightly sunned. Spine ends bumped and rubbed. Corners lightly bumped and rubbed. Edges toned. Internally, no writing or stamps. Some shadow and foxing to prelims. Prior owner signature to front endpaper, pages otherwise clean and bright. Carefully packaged and despatched within 48 hours from our wee bookshop in Scotland. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 1162 pages .
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- Bookseller
- The Old Bookshelf (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 60136
- Title
- THE OXFORD BOOK OF ENGLISH VERSE 1250 - 1918
- Author
- Quiller-Couch, Arthur
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ with no dust jacket
- Edition
- Second Edition; Third Printing
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- United Kingdom
- Date Published
- 1948
- Keywords
- Poetry, England, English Poetry
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Campbeltown, Argyll and Bute
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- 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....
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- 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...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...