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The Cutting of an Agate
by W.B. Yeats
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +/Fair
- Seller
-
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1919. Very Good +/Fair. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1919. First UK Edition. Octavo. 223 pages. Printed dust jacket, though lacking spine portion. Blue cloth stamped in gilt.
Only front and rear panels of dust jacket present with some light chipping and general rubbing to remaining portions. Tear along bottom half of front flap. Jacket now in removable mylar, retained in photo. Light edgewear to boards. Binding is sound. Bookplate of Albert Parsons Sachs to front pastedown. Pages mostly unopened. Interior clean and unmarked.
A series of essays penned between 1902-1912, first published in the U.S. in 1912 with some alterations to the U.K. publication.
Only front and rear panels of dust jacket present with some light chipping and general rubbing to remaining portions. Tear along bottom half of front flap. Jacket now in removable mylar, retained in photo. Light edgewear to boards. Binding is sound. Bookplate of Albert Parsons Sachs to front pastedown. Pages mostly unopened. Interior clean and unmarked.
A series of essays penned between 1902-1912, first published in the U.S. in 1912 with some alterations to the U.K. publication.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8880
- Title
- The Cutting of an Agate
- Author
- W.B. Yeats
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Macmillan and Co., Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1919
Terms of Sale
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2019
Washington, District of Columbia
About Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
Capitol Hill Books is a used bookstore in the Eastern Market neighborhood of Washington, DC. We have three floors of quality used books, first editions, and rare books.
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Unopened
- A state in which all or some of the pages of a book have not been separated from the adjacent pages, caused by a traditional...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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