Nones
by AUDEN, W. H
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York: Random House. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1951. Hardcover. A stated first printing (preceding the UK edition) of W. H. Auden's poetry collection, dated on cover in gilt as "1947-1950." With a full-length poem dedicating this volume to Reinhold and Ursula Niebuhr. These poems originally appeared in various literary magazines. --- In tweed-look paper-covered boards backed in blue cloth, with date to cover and titling to spine, both in gilt. Volume lacks the dust jacket. --- With mild cover soiling and prior owner Karin Chapman's dated signature to front free endpaper, else a tightly-bound, sound copy.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; 81 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 86635
- Title
- Nones
- Author
- AUDEN, W. H
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1951
- Bookseller catalogs
- >>Poetry;
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Bluebird Books
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Littleton, Colorado
About Bluebird Books
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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...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...