THE LEGEND OF SAINT VITALIS AND OTHER POEMS ( SIGNED BY AUTHOR )
by Church, Alfred J
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
-
Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
London: B. H. Blackwell. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1887. First Edition. Hardcover. Original grey papered boards and green buckram spine, gilt titles, edges lightly rubbed, uncut page edges, signed and dated by author on frontis photograph of himself. A very scarce book.; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 61. pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Luis Porretta Fine Arts
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 15094
- Title
- THE LEGEND OF SAINT VITALIS AND OTHER POEMS ( SIGNED BY AUTHOR )
- Author
- Church, Alfred J
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- B. H. Blackwell
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1887
- Keywords
- First Edition, Poetry
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
Terms of Sale
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Luis Porretta Fine Arts
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Nanaimo, British Columbia
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Glossary
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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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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....
- 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...
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
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