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Boswell's Book of Bad Verse
by Boswell, James \(Edited by Jack Werner\)
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0856174874
- ISBN 13
- 9780856174872
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
London: White Lion Publishers, 1974. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition.. London: White Lion Publishers, 1974. First Edition . Near Fine/Very Good+. First Edition in original dust jacket. Clean green boards with gold lettering on spine. No fraying or fading. Binding is tight and square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean and bright, with clean blank endpapers. No names, writing or bookplates. 215 pages. Dust jacket is clean, corner price clipped (tiny bit of price still showing), no chips, hint of very slight rubbing and one 1/16" closed edge tear. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Poems discovered by Jack Werner (editor) in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, written in Boswell's own hand on 100 sheets of high quality notepaper. With a few exceptions, they have never been published before. Mr. Werner has now collected the poems together, with an historical commentary as erudite as it is in itself an entertainment..
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 025153
- Title
- Boswell's Book of Bad Verse
- Author
- Boswell, James \(Edited by Jack Werner\)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Edition
- First Edition.
- ISBN 10
- 0856174874
- ISBN 13
- 9780856174872
- Publisher
- White Lion Publishers
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1974
- Keywords
- POETRY, JAMES BOSWELL, FIRST EDITION, JACK WERNER, BAD VERSE
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
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- Good+
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- Edges
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- Spine
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- New
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- Price Clipped
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Fine
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