ADDRESS TO THE LIVING
by Holmes, John
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Winchester, Virginia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Henry Holt and Co, 1937. First Edition. Signed first edition. 8vo. Hardcover; missing jacket. Signed, inscribed, and dated by author. "To _____, with friendly good wishes - John Holmes - Tufts College, June 1937." Likely a graduation gift based on the inscription. Free endpaper includes sticker from the early New England booksellers, Charles E. Lauriat Booksellers and Importers in Boston. Cover has significant fading. Significant marks, staining, and fading on paste-down and free endpapers. Toning to pages, otherwise clean. Dust jacket is not present. Accompanying the book is related ephemera: Holmes's obituary in Saturday Review by John Ciardi. Fair.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 66752
- Title
- ADDRESS TO THE LIVING
- Author
- Holmes, John
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Henry Holt and Co
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1937
- 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
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...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...