BALLADS OF BOUVERIE STREET AND OTHER VERSES
by Read, Janet
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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About This Item
NP: Privately published, No date stated. Paperback. 37 pp.,8vo,,Blue card covers.,Front cover torn nearly off, sunned. Rear cover has small chip & crease to bottom corner and some slight scuffing. There are two Janet Read poems cut from newspapers and pinned (literally) to the last two leaves, perforating paper, and discolouring it with the offset. There is a perforation and offset where a third might have been. Overall, fair to good. Holograph poem, dedicated 'To the Ideal Companion with all good wishes' and dated Sep. 1923 (sic), on verso of title page.
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- Bookseller
- BISON BOOKS - ABAC/ILAB (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9900020446
- Title
- BALLADS OF BOUVERIE STREET AND OTHER VERSES
- Author
- Read, Janet
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Privately published
- Place of Publication
- NP
- Date Published
- No date stated
- Keywords
- Literature;;;;;;;;
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
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About the Seller
BISON BOOKS - ABAC/ILAB
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Winnipeg, Manitoba
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- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Offset
- A technique of printing where the inked image or text is ...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- 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...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.