Milton's God
by William Empson
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable/Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Chatto & Windus, 1961. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1961. No Edition Remarks. 280 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over red cloth with gilt lettering. Boards are bowed. Pages are bright and clear with light tanning and foxing to free endpapers and text block edges. Former owner's inscription to front free pastedown. Noticeable thumb-marking present on rear free endpaper, with a few small nicks along text block edge. Minor dog-eared corners. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with moderate bumping and fraying to corners, and rubbing to surfaces. Boards are bowed. Light tanning and foxing to spine and edges. Unclipped jacket has moderate edgewear, with chips, tears and creasing to spine ends and corners. Price labels and water drops on rear panel. Dust jacket spine is heavily tanned.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1688471027ANC
- Title
- Milton's God
- Author
- William Empson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable/Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus
- Date Published
- 1961
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About the Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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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....
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- 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....