New York: Peter Pauper Press. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Mary Jane Gordon. 12mo. Unpaginated. Hardcover in black, white, and red illustrated dust jacket. DJ is foxed, has edge-wear, a small tear at foot of spine. Price clipped. The cloth binding has the same illustration on front and back covers as the dust jacket. Cloth is foxed. Endpapers are foxed. Text is toned. Has a calling card for John Dargan Watson, an instructor at UNC-Chapel Hill, and a civil engineer who was involved in the construction of the town of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, which was used to house people involved in developing materials for the Manhattan Project.

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Bookseller: Pages Past Used and Rare Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 047495
Title: William Shakespeare's Sonnets
Author: Shakespeare, William
Illustrator: Mary Jane Gordon
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition: Good
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: Peter Pauper Press
Place of Publication: New York
Keywords: William Shakespeare; Sonnets; Literature; Mary Jane Gordon; Illustrated
Bookseller catalogs: Literature & Fiction; Poetry;

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About Pages Past Used and Rare Books

Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.

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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....
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Foxed: Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
Price Clipped: When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
12mo: A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...