THE HAWK IN THE RAIN [Signed]
by Hughes, Ted
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Rockville, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, 52 pages. In Very Good minus condition with Good plus dust jacket. Spine age toned yellow, with black lettering. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering, and showing some shelf wear and soiling and significant foxing. A small closed tear evident to upper edge of jacket front, along with small chips missing at crown of jacket spine. A large chip is missing at tail of jacket spine. Price uncut: "$2.75." All edges foxed. Signed and dated by Hughes at front free end paper. Previous owner's inscription at front paste down. Some foxing to end papers. Pages clean.
"The Hawk in the Rain" was Hughes's first book.Shelved in Case 0. 1343443. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
"The Hawk in the Rain" was Hughes's first book.Shelved in Case 0. 1343443. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Second Story Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1343443
- Title
- THE HAWK IN THE RAIN [Signed]
- Author
- Hughes, Ted
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Harper and Brothers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1957
- Keywords
- Poetry, British Literature
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Second Story Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2010
Rockville, Maryland
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...