The Wild Swans at Coole
by Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1919. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Small Thin Octavo. viii + 114 p + ii, Preface, 39 poems, Note. 5.4" x 8" dark green cloth baords, gilt fr cover design, & rubbed (barely intelligible) gilt spine letters. Binding tight & square, head and tail spine cloth edges with light wear, gilt spine letters worn a bit. Age-toned verso "Note" (2nd r e. p.). .
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Details
- Bookseller
- West Side Book Shop, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 007957
- Title
- The Wild Swans at Coole
- Author
- Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Macmillan and Co. Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1919
- Size
- Small Thin Octavo
- Keywords
- William Butler Years - Irish poet and writer - Ireland late 19th & early 20th century - classic English language modern poems
- Bookseller catalogs
- LITERATURE;
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About the Seller
West Side Book Shop, ABAA
Biblio member since 2006
Ann Arbor, Michigan
About West Side Book Shop, ABAA
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Glossary
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.