GEODE / ROCK BODY - LIMITED EDITION, SIGNED
by Ehrlich, Gretel
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Stephenson, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Santa Barbara: Capricorn Press, 1970. First Edition. Cloth Issue, one of 50 copies specially bound and signed by the author. Octavo (24.5cm); beige buckram, with decorative title label mounted to front cover; [6],7-34,[6]pp. Hint of foxing to text edges, else very Near Fine. The Santa Barbara poet's first book, published when she was 24 years old - a collection of poems inspired chiefly by the natural world. This copy is unnumbered - an overrun from the collection of Earle and Larry Gray, owners of the Earle Gray Book Binding Company, who were responsible for binding most of the books published by the Black Sparrow Press and a host of smaller California publishers.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Captain Ahab's Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6808
- Title
- GEODE / ROCK BODY - LIMITED EDITION, SIGNED
- Author
- Ehrlich, Gretel
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Capricorn Press
- Place of Publication
- Santa Barbara
- Date Published
- 1970
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About the Seller
Captain Ahab's Rare Books
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Stephenson, Virginia
About Captain Ahab's Rare Books
Founded in 2010, Captain Ahab's Rare Books specializes in first editions of literature, genre fiction, film-related books and ephemera, zines, manuscript and archival material.
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...