Scarabaeus
by Montgomery, Elizabeth Shaw
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Plus/Good
- Seller
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Newburyport, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harold Vinal, 1926 Reprint. Hard cover, 8vo, 40pp., First Edition. Scarce volume of poetry by the author of "Scarlet Runner" (1923). The title poem is a somewhat gothic poem with references to Thoth and Kheperi, the latter being the Ancient Egyptian scarab-faced god who represented creation and the renewal of life. The other poems follow a similar theme - with title such as "Frail Hope", "Grey Moths" and "Sorcery". CONDITION: Very Good Plus in a Good dust jacket, which has split along the spine (now protected by a clear plastic cover).. Hard Cover. Very Good Plus/Good.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Dark and Stormy Night Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8296
- Title
- Scarabaeus
- Author
- Montgomery, Elizabeth Shaw
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Plus
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Publisher
- Harold Vinal
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1926
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- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- 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
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...