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A Clip of Steel
by BLACKBURN, Thomas
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
London: Macgibbon & Kee, 1969. First Edition. Octavo. Red cloth boards; dustjacket; 126pp. Inconspicuous faint stain to bottom edge of text block, else a fine, tight copy in unclipped, lightly edge-rubbed jacket, Near Fine. Post-war British poet's memoir of a strict Victorian upbringing and his dissipated later youth. The "clip of steel" of the title refers to a device inflicted upon the child by his father, designed to "deter nocturnal erections and to prevent the loss of vital bodily fluids.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 33955
- Title
- A Clip of Steel
- Author
- BLACKBURN, Thomas
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Macgibbon & Kee
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1969
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Poetry; Great Britain; Sexuality;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books
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Winchester, Virginia
About Lorne Bair Rare Books
Lorne Bair Rare Books specializes in books, mansuscripts, and printed ephemera relating to American Social History, with an emphasis on radical and utopian movements of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. We are available in our showroom by appointment, at shows, and on-line through various booksellers' sites or at our website www.lornebair.com.
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- Fine
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- Device
- Especially for older books, a printer's device refers to an identifying mark, also sometimes called a printer's mark, on the...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- First Edition
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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