Harbor Lights of Home
by GUEST, Edgar A
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+ with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
Chicago: Reilly & Lee. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1928. First Edition. Leather. A first edition of Edgar Guest's ninth book of verse, published in 1928. Includes an introductory explanation of the book's title by Rev. M. S. Rice. "Eddie" Guest, sometimes referred to as the "People's Poet," was a popular poet in the early part of the 20th century. Mr. Guest was born in England, but his family moved to Detroit, Michigan when he was 10. --- In flexible red leather boards with titling and decoration in bright gilt to cover; spine titling also in gilt, brown marbled endpapers and TEG (top edge gilt). Volume lacks a dust jacket. --- About one inch of leather covering at head of spine is missing, and with small bruises, chafed spots and blemishes to covers, as well as inked gift incription & ownership info. to front paste-down, otherwise a well-preserved copy.; 16mo - 6 to 7 in. tall; 185, (4) pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 86292
- Title
- Harbor Lights of Home
- Author
- GUEST, Edgar A
- Format/Binding
- Leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Reilly & Lee
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 1928
- Bookseller catalogs
- >>Poetry;
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About the Seller
Bluebird Books
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Littleton, Colorado
About Bluebird Books
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Glossary
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- 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...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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...
- 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....