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The Fighting Race and Other Poems and Ballads
by Clarke, Joseph I. C
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
-
Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
New York: The American News Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1911. First Edition. Hardcover. Green cloth covered boards show some shelf wear, small corner bumps and light soiling. ; A tight solid book. Top edges gilt, fore and bottom edges untrimmed, laid paper. Gilt stamped titles front and spine. ; 207 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ainsworth Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 18398
- Title
- The Fighting Race and Other Poems and Ballads
- Author
- Clarke, Joseph I. C
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- The American News Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1911
- Keywords
- POETRY, America, Patriotic, Celts
- Bookseller catalogs
- POETRY;
Terms of Sale
Ainsworth Books
Satisfaction guaranteed - if I have made an error in the description, I will refund book and shipping both ways. If the customer just changes his/her mind I will only refund one shipping charge. Please contact me before sending a book back. Any dust jackets on books will have a Mylar protector. Books shipped from US or Canada.
About the Seller
Ainsworth Books
Biblio member since 2003
Chilliwack, British Columbia
About Ainsworth Books
Ainsworth Books was for many years a bricks and mortar store in Vancouver, BC. When we acquired the store, we moved to a location in Delta. After three years we moved the stock home and started operation as an online, by appointment only operation. I have worked with books my whole adult life and enjoy giving recommendations.
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- 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....
- 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...
- 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.
- 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...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- 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...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
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