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Alexander Pope: Selected Works
by Pope, Alexander
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Poor
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About This Item
New York: The Modern Library, 1948. First Thus. Hardcover. Very Good/Poor. 12mo - over 6?" - 7?" tall. Type: Hardback Collectible. First Modern Library Edition, 1948. Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition with a Poor Dust Jacket protected in archival sleeve. Edited with an Introduction by Louis Kronenberger. This volume includes The Duneiad, Essay on Man, Essay on Criticism, The Rape of the Lock, a generous offering of odes, satires, pastorals, epigrams, epistles, and other writings. In gray full cloth binding with black title panels on front and on spine, very clean, well-protected by the jacket, quite clean and unmarked, lower corners lightly scuffed, upper corners less so; spine head and heel cloth lightly compressed; sewn binding is tight, solid and square. Pages are lightly and evenly toned, very clean, no markings of any kind, no creases. 388 pages. 5 x 7.25 inches. 1948, The Modern Library, New York.
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- Bookseller
- The Parnassus BookShop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 026716
- Title
- Alexander Pope: Selected Works
- Author
- Pope, Alexander
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Poor
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Thus
- Publisher
- The Modern Library
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1948
- Size
- 12mo - over 6?" - 7?"
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- PHILOSOPHY 18TH CENTURY LITERATURE
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
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- 12mo
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- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- Jacket
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- Poor
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