The One-Hoss Shay - with Its Companion Poems
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- G+/N/a
- Seller
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Lutterworth, Leicestershire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Gay and Bird, 1905. Three poems by the American writer with new colour illustrations by Pyle. Brown covers with gilt lettering to spine and front board with gilt decoration on front board and blind-stamped horse and carriage motif repeated on spine. Tissue-guarded frontis, gilt top page edges, 164pp, but only right-hand pp carry text and illustrations so paginated to 82pp. Light wear to extremities, foxing to prelims, neat previous owner's name pencilled on ffep. Book very slightly cocked, but text bloc clean and tight. Ref:082681. First Thus. Buckram. G+/N/a. Illus. by Howard Pyle. 13cmx21cm.
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- Bookseller
- Church Street Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002681
- Title
- The One-Hoss Shay - with Its Companion Poems
- Author
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Illustrator
- Howard Pyle
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - G+
- Jacket Condition
- N/a
- Edition
- First Thus
- Publisher
- Gay and Bird
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1905
- Size
- 13cmx21cm
Terms of Sale
Church Street Books
payment with order. Refund if description inaccurate
About the Seller
Church Street Books
Biblio member since 2007
Lutterworth, Leicestershire
About Church Street Books
Second-hand book dealer (formerly in a Diss Shop), with a stock of around 2000 books from modern quality literature to reference, aviation, classics and antiquarian
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- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
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