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Tiger
by Bynner, Witter
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Fair dust jacket
- Seller
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Moab, Utah, United States
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About This Item
New York: Mitchell Kennerley. Very Good in Fair dust jacket. 1913. First Edition. Hardcover. Maroon cloth boards; original buff dust jacket with title, reviews and publisher's advertisements in black lettering, protected with mylar cover. Signed and inscribed by Bynner on front endpaper. Boards have light wear to edges; text block has light toning; dust jacket has moderate dampstaining at spine and moderate soiling, two 1" and less chipping on bottom edge. Inscription written to Bynner's cousin, Maude Witter, and includes a few lines of verse. Written early in Bynner's life as poet, this play "focuses, in dramatic form, the abominable realities to which 'civilized' people have so long shut their eyes, publically and pharisaically; but to which, in tens of thousands of cases, they have given vicious personal and private encouragement." ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 48 pp; Signed by Author .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Back of Beyond Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 018578
- Title
- Tiger
- Author
- Bynner, Witter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Fair dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Mitchell Kennerley
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1913
- Keywords
- Literature, Signed, Witter Bynner
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Back of Beyond Books
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Moab, Utah
About Back of Beyond Books
Located in the heart of the desert southwest Back of Beyond Books is an indie bookstore in Moab, Utah. The name of the store was drawn from one of Edward Abbey's most well-known fiction titles, The Monkey Wrench Gang. We specialize in natural history, environmental literature, southwestern guidebooks & maps, Native American books, and Western history. But we also carry a wild assortment of fiction, science, philosophy, current affairs, rare books, and generally other cool stuff.
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- 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....
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
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