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Love's Bitter-Sweet: Translations from the Irish Poets of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
by Flower, Robin
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Chico, California, United States
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About This Item
Dublin: The Cuala Press, 1925. Robin Flower (1881-1946) was an English poet and scholar of both Anglo-Saxon and Irish. "The poems here translated are in the main of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and correspond in time to the lyrics of the Elizabethan, Jacobean and Caroline poets in English" [from Flower's Preface].This is a Very Good copy of the First Edition which was LIMITED to 500 copies. Not a common book.Light blue-gray paper-covered boards with a linen spine; titled in black on the front cover and a paper spine label. Clean text; 35 pages. A previous-owner has noted in pencil on the second free endpaper the purchase from Sotheby's in 1943 Endpapers have some offset; linen spine is a bit darkened, and there is some sunfase around the margins. In an archival plastic protector.. Limited. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Quercus Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005931
- Title
- Love's Bitter-Sweet: Translations from the Irish Poets of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
- Author
- Flower, Robin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Limited
- Publisher
- The Cuala Press
- Place of Publication
- Dublin
- Date Published
- 1925
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Bookseller catalogs
- Irish Literature;
Terms of Sale
Quercus Rare Books
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About the Seller
Quercus Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Chico, California
About Quercus Rare Books
Quercus Books seeks out and provides to the discriminating Reader or Collector noteworthy books in the First Edition. Our particular focus is on Modern Literature (roughly from the Second World War to the present) and Irish Authors. We also retain a small stock of non-fiction titles, mostly in the fields of American Western History, American Indians, and the American Civil War. Member of IOBA - the Independent Online Booksellers Association.
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