Quiet as Moss
by Andrew Young
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Condition/Very Good
- Seller
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Katoomba, New South Wales, Australia
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Rupert Hart-Davis, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Joan Hassall. From the 1000+ volume private collection of well-known Australian poet and author Guy Weller all of which are listed or will soon be listed on this site. Includes many hardcover Collected Poems from sought-after 20th century poets from all countries. Search Mr Pickwick's store on this site under category Poetry, or else do a Keyword search for the special keyword '"pickwickpoems" to display these as an isolated group. Size: A4 (300 x 210mm approx.). 40 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Scattered foxing, but text mostly clean. Dust Jacket is fully intact, no tears or chips, but carries signs of wear to top and bottom edges, corners etc. Dust Jacket price-clipped. Edges foxed and browned. Prominent brown marks from adhesive tape on front and rear endpapers. Illustrator: Joan Hassall. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Poetry; All our pictures shown here are of the actual item, not stock photos. Inventory No: 28260. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Mr Pickwick's Fine Old Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 28260
- Title
- Quiet as Moss
- Author
- Andrew Young
- Illustrator
- Joan Hassall
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (Original Cloth)
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Rupert Hart-Davis
- Date Published
- 1959
- Keywords
- BZDB1 Poetry; Joan Hassall Andrew Young Quiet as Moss
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
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About the Seller
Mr Pickwick's Fine Old Books
Biblio member since 2004
Katoomba, New South Wales
About Mr Pickwick's Fine Old Books
Mr Pickwick's occupies a large, 3-storey former Bank building in the heart of the Blue Mountains west of Sydney, Australia. We carry over 60,000 books in store, and cater to both the specialist collector trade as well as the general book trade in this region. Mr Pickwick's is one of the most comprehensive bookshops in Australia, and also operates an extensive Bookfinder service for its several thousand database clients.
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- 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...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....