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Songs of the Glens of Antrim
by O'Neill, Moira
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +/Very Good
- Seller
-
Madison, Indiana, United States
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About This Item
Portland, ME: Thomas B. Mosher, 1911. First Edition thus. Hardcover. Duodecimo. 7 x 4.5 inches. 43 pp. Very Good+ / Good in a Very Good slipcase. Edition of 950 copies. "Nine hundred and fifty copies of this book printed on Van Gelder hand-made paper and the type distributed." Pale blue-grey paper over boards, red and black lettering on printed spine and cover labels. All edges deckled. Red initial on first page of text. Printer's mark in red on title page and colophon. Illustrated by decorative half-title, title page, first and last pages of text. Binding tight. Boards clean with slight browning to edges. Chip at head of spine and minor bump to tail of spine. Text clean and bright. Previous owner's gift inscription on front free endpaper. Original glassine jacket chipped and nicked, with one large tear. Original slipcase intact with uneven sunning, chipping, and edgewear. Verses written by Irish-Canadian poet Agnes Shakespeare Higginson (pseudonym, Moira O'Neill), inspired by the nine Glens of Antrim in County Antrim on the coast of Northern Ireland.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Village Lights Bookstore, ABAA/ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0000002
- Title
- Songs of the Glens of Antrim
- Author
- O'Neill, Moira
- Format/Binding
- Pale blue-grey paper over boards
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition thus
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Thomas B. Mosher
- Place of Publication
- Portland, Maine
- Date Published
- 1911
- Pages
- 43
- Size
- 12mo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Rare/Antiquarian
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
Terms of Sale
Village Lights Bookstore, ABAA/ILAB
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About the Seller
Village Lights Bookstore, ABAA/ILAB
Biblio member since 2008
Madison, Indiana
About Village Lights Bookstore, ABAA/ILAB
Village Lights Bookstore opened as a brick-and-mortar shop in 2008. We are a "mom & pop" business, and we live in the same building. We are members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America, the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers, the American Booksellers Association, and the Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Association. We offer a modest, but diverse, selection of rare, collectible, and antiquarian items, as well as select higher quality new books. We carefully grade our books in accordance with IOBA Book Condition Definitions (https://www.ioba.org/conditions-definitions), describe them using standard ABAA terminology (https://www.abaa.org/glossary), and painstakingly package them to prevent damage in transit. We value direct communication, so please feel free to call if you have questions about our listings or to confirm that an item is still on hand. And consider visiting us on Main Street in the heart of downtown Madison, Indiana, the country's largest contiguous National Historic Landmark District, and a Designated Indiana Cultural District, on the banks of the beautiful Ohio River.
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- Title Page
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- Spine
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Colophon
- The colophon contains information about a book's publisher, the typesetting, printer, and possibly even includes a printer's...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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