LORD WEARY'S CASTLE
by Lowell, Robert
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harcourt Brace, 1946. First edition. Black cloth, gilt lettering, in dust jacket; small 8vo. 69 pp. Grolier Bookshop book ticket on front paste down. Very good copy with light wear to extremities and light foxing to prelims; black jacket lightly rubbed, few spots; few tears to rear; top and bottom of spine of jacket with small chips, else very good (in removable protective archival cover). Not price-clipped. Poet's first regularly published book, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1947; Lowell became consultant to the Librarian of Congress the same year.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 65463
- Title
- LORD WEARY'S CASTLE
- Author
- Lowell, Robert
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Harcourt Brace
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1946
- 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
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- 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...
- 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....
- First Edition
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...