NY: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1956. Early reprint. Hardcover. VG in G dust jacket. Slender turquoise cloth binding with very light wear, some darkened spoting to spine, some sunning to edges, else clean, tightly bound, clean and unmarked pages. Dust jacket show wear -- rubbing tiny tears, minor soiling, National Book Award Label on front panel, not price-clipped (shows $3.00)

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Bookseller: North Country Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 21963
Title: THINGS OF THIS WORLD (Poetry)
Author: Richard Wilbur
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - VG in G dust jacket
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: Early reprint
Publisher: Harcourt, Brace and Company
Place of Publication: NY
Date Published: 1956
Bookseller catalogs: literature;

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General used, collectible and antiquarian books. Also paper, ephemera and posters. I am now in my 14th year of full-time book selling.

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Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:

Rubbing: Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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....
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...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
VG: Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
G: Good describes the average used and worn book that has all pages or leaves present. Any defects must be noted. (as defined by AB...