Letters of Robert Browning
by Browning, Robert. Collected By Thomas J. Wise. Edited By Thurman L. Hood
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
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East Granby, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1933. First edition [1933]. More than two hundred collected letters of Browning to Swinburne, Rossetti, Leigh Hunt, Edmund Gosse and many others, including accounts of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Shelley, Landor and others, with gossipy news and personal insights. Original bookmark for this publication laid in loosely at the front. Red cloth lettered in gilt, 389 pages, printed dustjacket. The book has some wear to the spine ends and some edge rubbing, good hinges, sound text block, clean pages free from names or other markings. The mylar protected dustjacket is not priceclipped and has soem uneven fading, edgewear, and several chips, resulting in about five percent paper loss overall. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Resource Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006445
- Title
- Letters of Robert Browning
- Author
- Browning, Robert. Collected By Thomas J. Wise. Edited By Thurman L. Hood
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Place of Publication
- New Haven, Connecticut
- Date Published
- 1933
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- BRITISH STUDIES LETTERS CORRESPONDENCE BROWNING
- Bookseller catalogs
- World History, World Wars and Militaria;
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About the Seller
Resource Books, LLC
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East Granby, Connecticut
About Resource Books, LLC
Resource Books, LLC deals in antiquarian and out-of-print books in a wide variety of subject matter, mainly non-fiction.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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