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By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept
by Elizabeth Smart
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good, with spots of sunning to edges and perimeters of spine extending to boards, touches of edge wear, prior owner's name /Good only jacket, with full flaps but significant loss to bottom of rear panel and spine, some chipping and creasing to edges of
- Seller
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Ridgewood, New York, United States
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About This Item
London: Editions Poetry London, 1945. First Edition. Hardcover [octavo] in illustrated dust jacket, red cloth with gilt stamped lettering to spine, 54 pp. Very Good, with spots of sunning to edges and perimeters of spine extending to boards, touches of edge wear, prior owner's name to front free end paper.Internally bright and clean./Good only jacket, with full flaps but significant loss to bottom of rear panel and spine, some chipping and creasing to edges of panels. Beautiful illustrated front panel almost entirely lossless despite the edge wear.. Jacket design by Gerald WIlde. First Edition of Elizabeth Smart's cult classic, a novel / prose poem based on her affair with English poet George Barker, with whom she had four of his fifteen children. The book was highly controversial upon its initial publication: Smart was summarily dismissed from her post at the British Ministry of Defence and her mother successfully banned its publication in Smart's native Canada, even going further to buy up as many copies as she could that made its way across the pond.
Given its small print run of 2000 copies (and her mother's Seek and Destroy mission), the first edition remains rare in any condiiton.
Given its small print run of 2000 copies (and her mother's Seek and Destroy mission), the first edition remains rare in any condiiton.
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- Bookseller
- Better Read Than Dead
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1238
- Title
- By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept
- Author
- Elizabeth Smart
- Illustrator
- Jacket design by Gerald WIlde
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover [octavo] in illustrated dust jacket, red cloth with gilt stamped lettering to spine, 54 pp
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good, with spots of sunning to edges and perimeters of spine extending to boards, touches of edge wear, prior owner's name
- Jacket Condition
- Good only jacket, with full flaps but significant loss to bottom of rear panel and spine, some chipping and creasing to edges of
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Editions Poetry London
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1945
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Ridgewood, New York
About Better Read Than Dead
Better Read Than Dead has been selling used books and other printed materials in Brooklyn, NY since 2012. We currently operate two open storefronts and an ever-growing online inventory.
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- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Flap(s)
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- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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