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Verse and Worse: A Private Collection
by Silcock, Arnold
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0571051324
- ISBN 13
- 9780571051328
- Seller
-
Lyndhurst, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
London: Faber & Faber, Limited, 1958. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 7 " X 5 . V. H. Drummond. Introduction, Foreword, Acknowledgments : Reader, there is no Introduction to this book, But if for information you've a mind You'll findthe foreword's got stuck in behind (Unless you're too darned indolent to look.) " A Private Collection by Arnold Silcock. 270 pp. plus: Index of Authors, Index of First Lines, Index of Titles . Poems are organized thematicly, e.g. 'Parodies and Spites', ' The Lunatic Fringe ', 'Rhyming Proverbs' etc. Spine is sunned to pinkish-tan, and has lost its lamination, some edge wear, top edge has dust soiling. But very funny ! Bookseller's Inventory # 133479.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lower Beverley Better Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003479
- Title
- Verse and Worse: A Private Collection
- Author
- Silcock, Arnold
- Illustrator
- V. H. Drummond
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0571051324
- ISBN 13
- 9780571051328
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber, Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1958
- Size
- 7 " X 5
Terms of Sale
Lower Beverley Better Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Lower Beverley Better Books
Biblio member since 2014
Lyndhurst, Ontario
About Lower Beverley Better Books
An online bookstore that just grew from a combination of a love of books, a desire to save them from landfill and an inability to bypass yard sales. A considerable percentage of my inventory is signed editions. I also take pride in my Canadiana catalogue.
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- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...