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Nets to Catch the Wind
by Elinor Wylie
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine Condition/Near Fine
- Seller
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Warwick, New York, United States
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About This Item
Harcourt Brace, New York, 1921. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Near Fine Condition/Near Fine. ELINOR WYLIE. Nets to Catch the Wind, New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1921. Thin 12mo, first edition, pp. [ii], 47, ribbed brown cloth boards with a smooth cloth shelfback of a slightly different shade, brown stamped lettering to spine and front. Printed on unwatermarked paper, which BAL considers to be the first printing. This book is Wylie's first using her name, preceded by an anonymous effort in 1912 that was limited to 65 copies. BAL 23484, MJ p. 551, Feminist Companion p. 192. Condition of this book: Near fine. Short tear in jacket at top edge of front panel, chipping at upper spine. Top edge of leaves is dust darkened, offsetting from a newspaper article on title page. Shipments outside the U.S. may be subject to local taxes. Size: 12mo. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Poetry; United States; 1920s; Literature & Literary. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 55020. .
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 55020
- Title
- Nets to Catch the Wind
- Author
- Elinor Wylie
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (Original Cloth)
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harcourt Brace
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1921
- Keywords
- BZDB17 Poetry; United States; 1920s; Literature & Literary. Elinor Wylie Nets to Catch the Wind
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- BAL
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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...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Title Page
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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