Ten Burnt Offerings
by MACNEICE, Louis
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
New York: Oxford University Press, 1953. First American Edition. Octavo (22.5cm). Publisher's orange cloth, in original beige dust jacket; plain endpapers; [96]pp; publisher's ad to rear of jacket. A straight copy, very lightly rubbed at head and tail, spotting and browning to endpapers, minor spotting to upper edge of textblock, else clean: Very Good or better. Jacket unclipped but without a price, as issued; rubbed at edges, with short chips and tears at head, browned at spine and along upper edge, a few minor spots of discoloration: Very Good. A later work by the popular Northern Irish poet.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 56923
- Title
- Ten Burnt Offerings
- Author
- MACNEICE, Louis
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1953
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Poetry; Ireland;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books
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Winchester, Virginia
About Lorne Bair Rare 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.