A Shropshire Lad
by HOUSMAN, A. E
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Stockport, Cheshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
The Richards Press Ltd , 1952. Hardback. Reprint, 1952 Brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Good condition; boards clean, light edgewear, bumps to corners and spine, tanning to endpapers, pages clean and tightly bound, Poem 'Eight O'Clock' glued to page 4. No dust jacket. Published: The Richards Press, 1952
Reviews
On Sep 11 2018, a reader said:
The poems strikes me as smooth and calm but its finest poetry I've
Ever read excellent.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Roy Turner Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13290
- Title
- A Shropshire Lad
- Author
- HOUSMAN, A. E
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Richards Press Ltd
- Date Published
- 1952
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Roy Turner Books
Biblio member since 2017
Stockport, Cheshire
About Roy Turner Books
With more than thirty years' experience of collecting literary first editions, I specialise in the areas of both contemporary and earlier fiction, poetry, drama and children's books with particular emphases on signed modern firsts, authors' first and early published books, American and Irish literature and literary prize-winning writers.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
- 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...