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Selected Poems
by WALCOTT, Derek
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Winchester, Virginia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Farrar, Straus and Company, 1964. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (22cm); blue-gray paper and green cloth-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; blue topstain; dustjacket; x,85,[1]pp. Upper board edges gently sunned, with topstain a bit dulled; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $4.00), gently spine-sunned and lightly edgeworn, with some mild dustiness to rear panel, and a tiny nick and tear at lower front panel; Very Good+ or better. Sharp copy of the Nobel Prize-winning author's American debut.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 59544
- Title
- Selected Poems
- Author
- WALCOTT, Derek
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1964
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Poetry; Postcolonial Literature;
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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Glossary
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- 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...
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- 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...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...