TO LIGHTEN MY HOUSE
by Reid, Alastair
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Scarsdale: Morgan & Morgan, 1953. First edition. Blue-gray cloth in dust jacket; large 8vo. 53 pp. Limited to 850 copies, one two page illustration by Kurt Roesch. This copy inscribed and signed to an American poet associated with New Formalism in 1999. An easily very good copy in a fair dust jacket that has separated at the spine, with some loss on the front panel (in removable archival covers).
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 66903
- Title
- TO LIGHTEN MY HOUSE
- Author
- Reid, Alastair
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Morgan & Morgan
- Place of Publication
- Scarsdale
- Date Published
- 1953
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Poetry;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Winchester, Virginia
About Lorne Bair Rare Books
Lorne Bair Rare Books specializes in books, mansuscripts, and printed ephemera relating to American Social History, with an emphasis on radical and utopian movements of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. We are available in our showroom by appointment, at shows, and on-line through various booksellers' sites or at our website www.lornebair.com.
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- First Edition
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- New
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- Jacket
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- Cloth
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- Inscribed
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- 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....