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Spring Birth, And Other Poems
by Mark Van Doren
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Acceptable/Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Henry Holt And Company, 1953. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1953. First Edition. 152 pages. Striped dust jacket over green quarter bound cloth with paper-covered boards. Heavy annotation to rear free endpaper. Pages are mostly clear, with light tanning and foxing to endpapers and text block edges. Pencil inscription to front paste-down, with a few small nicks along text block edge. Occasional thumb-marking present throughout. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with minor bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Light tanning to spine and edges, with visible crushing to spine ends. Book has a notable forward lean. Unclipped jacket has moderate surface wear, with chips, tears and creasing to edges, corners and spine ends. Lightly tanned overall. Pencil marks on rear panel.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1689059463BWT
- Title
- Spring Birth, And Other Poems
- Author
- Mark Van Doren
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable/Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Henry Holt And Company
- Date Published
- 1953
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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....
- 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...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- 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...
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