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The Woodland Life.
by EDWARD THOMAS
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
William Blackwood & Sons, London and Edinburgh, 1897. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition, second state. 234pp + ii publisher's advertisements. Decorated olive-green buckram lettered in gilt at the spine and in dark green at the upper board. With a captioned tissue-protected frontispiece. A hint of darkening to backstrip and board edges and some light spotting to several preliminary leaves. Embossed publisher's compliments stamp to corner of title and dedication leaves. Former owner details to a blank preliminary, one inked (dated 1905) and the other in pencil. A super copy of Thomas' uncommon first book, published when he was nineteen years old and comprising eleven essays and a diary covering the period April 1895-April 1896. See Eckert pp.185-187..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Clearwater Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 19529
- Title
- The Woodland Life.
- Author
- EDWARD THOMAS
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- William Blackwood & Sons, London and Edinburgh
- Date Published
- 1897
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About the Seller
Clearwater Books
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London
About Clearwater Books
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- 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...
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- Second State
- used in book collecting to refer to a first edition, but after some change has been made in the printing, such as a correction,...
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