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Poems of Wordsworth, Chosen By Matthew Arnold (The Modern Readers' Series)
by Wordsworth, William
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/No Jacket
- Seller
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Granville, New York, United States
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About This Item
NY: Macmillan, 1926. First edition thus. The Modern Readers' Series. Half leather. Published NY: Macmillan, 1926, first printing. 12mo., 5 1/4" x 7 1/4", xxxviii+301pp. Edited by Ashley L. Thorndike. Half green leather over green linen cloth with gilt spine titles and designs, top edge gilting, pictorial endpapers. Uniform sunning to spine, with a band of lightening at the top of rear cover leather, mild bleed darkening to pastedowns at contact areas of leather underlay, light rub at spine ends, previous owner bookplate on pastedown. Near fine, tight, crisp. . 1st. Hard. Near Fine/No Jacket. 12mo.
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- Bookseller
- The Wild Muse
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 009448
- Title
- Poems of Wordsworth, Chosen By Matthew Arnold (The Modern Readers' Series)
- Author
- Wordsworth, William
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- 1st
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1926
- Size
- 12mo
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry; Literary & Modern First Editions;
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Returnable within 10 days.
About the Seller
The Wild Muse
Biblio member since 2005
Granville, New York
About The Wild Muse
Literary and modern first editions. Established 1985. Mail order only.
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