ADAM AND THE SACRED NINE
by Hughes, Ted
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Winchester, Virginia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: The Rainbow Press, 1978 (but 1979). First Edition. Full blue calf binding with raised bands by Gray of Cambridge, gilt spine titles; decorated Japanese endpapers; housed in full blue cloth slipcase with ribbed fabric; 8vo. 23 pages. Frontispiece drawing of a phoenix rising by Leonard Baskin. No. 32 of 200 copies (150 for sale) designed and printed at the Rampant Lions Press in Cambridge. Comprises 17 poems by Hughes. Sagar and Tabor A59. Spine faded else fine in a fine slipcase.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 66404
- Title
- ADAM AND THE SACRED NINE
- Author
- Hughes, Ted
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- The Rainbow Press
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1978 (but 1979)
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Poetry;
Terms of Sale
Lorne Bair Rare Books
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About the Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Winchester, Virginia
About Lorne Bair Rare Books
Lorne Bair Rare Books specializes in books, mansuscripts, and printed ephemera relating to American Social History, with an emphasis on radical and utopian movements of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. We are available in our showroom by appointment, at shows, and on-line through various booksellers' sites or at our website www.lornebair.com.
Glossary
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- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...