Songs Before Sunrise
by Algernon Charles Swinburne
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Brattleboro, Vermont, United States
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About This Item
Limited edition of 450. Blue paper over boards backed with off-white faux vellum & faux raised bands; 3 gilt medallions on front cover (D.G. Rossetti design); paper spine label; hand made laid paper (Van Gelder); untrimmed at fore & tail edges; ribbon marker. Clean covers & spine; some age darkening on spine; very slightly rubbed at lower fore corners; tightly bound; bright & clean interior - some leaves unopened at top edges. 8vo, 286 pp. No 4 in 'Quarto Series'. Bishop #364.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Madden Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13846
- Title
- Songs Before Sunrise
- Author
- Algernon Charles Swinburne
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Portland, ME: Thomas B. Mosher
- Date Published
- 1901
- Keywords
- FINE PRESS, PRINTING, MOSHER, MAINE, VERSE, POETRY, VAN GELDER, PAPER
- Bookseller catalogs
- Art, Craft, Poetry;
Terms of Sale
Madden Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Madden Books
Biblio member since 2011
Brattleboro, Vermont
About Madden Books
I am a book collector and seller with many years experience. My particular areas of interest are politics, history, law, economics, labor and sociology. I also collect and sell Vermont and New England books, pamphlets, ephemera and magazines. I have a large selection of mysteries and detective books. I have general stock of literature, sciences, arts, world and regional politics & history.
Glossary
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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....
- 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...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Unopened
- A state in which all or some of the pages of a book have not been separated from the adjacent pages, caused by a traditional...
- Vellum
- Vellum is a sheet of specialty prepared skin of lamb, calf, or goat kid used for binding a book or for printing and writing. ...