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Selected Poems
by John Clare
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good — in Good+ Dust Wrapper. Dust wrapper lightly sunned at the spine. Previous owners' name to the first blank.
- Seller
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Peasedown St. John, Somerset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1950. Hardback. Very Good — in Good+ Dust Wrapper. Dust wrapper lightly sunned at the spine. Previous owners' name to the first blank.. First edition (first printing). Hardback in dust wrapper (blue boards with gilt titling to the spine) Physically 7” x 4¾” (0.7 kg); (viii) 246pp; In the Muses' Library series; Edited by Geoffrey Grigson; Preface by Geoffrey Grigson; Includes: Index of first lines; Glossary; Frontispiece; || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #199594|| Condition:
Synopsis
John Clare produced some of English poetry’s most poignant and glorious lyrics. Writing not as an observer of nature but from an intimate knowledge of the wheatfields, hedgerows, and ditches of his village in Northamptonshire, he described animals, insects, trees, rivers, sunlight, and clouds with sublime sensitivity. But as enclosures and “improvements” came in the early nineteenth century, dismembering the rural landscape, his later poems became infused with a sense of disorientation and loss, and scattered with threads of madness. Clare’s genius has been rediscovered by fellow poets in every generation since his death, from Dylan Thomas to Ted Hughes to Seamus Heaney. First time in Penguin Classics Landmark edition based on Clare's original manuscripts Includes introduction, explanatory notes, and glossary
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Details
- Bookseller
- BookLovers of Bath
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 199594
- Title
- Selected Poems
- Author
- John Clare
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good — in Good+ Dust Wrapper. Dust wrapper lightly sunned at the spine. Previous owners' name to the first blank.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London: Routledge & Kegan Paul
- Date Published
- 1950
- Keywords
- british poems, english poems, english poetry, english poets, 19th century poetry, romantic period poetry, selected poems, first edition books, books by john clare, geoffrey grigson, muses' library series, poems, poetic literature, poetry books, poets,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
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BookLovers of Bath
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BookLovers of Bath
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Peasedown St. John, Somerset
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BookLovers of Bath is set in the pastoral idyll of Peasedown St. John in Somerset (God's Own Country) in the south west of England. My wife and I owned the village Post Office until the modern world caught up with us in 2014. At that point I converted the premises to a small book shop, Fact or Fable, with a stock of around 4,000 titles in stock. I've been selling books worldwide since 1997 and rather hope to get the hang of it shortly…
Glossary
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- 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....
- 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...
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