WINTER WORDS: In Various Moods and Metres
by Hardy, Thomas
- Used
- Very Good
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
Deerfield, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
London: Macmillan, 1928. first edition.. hardcover. Very Good. Octavo, green cloth covers with gilt esgin on front cover and gilt spine titles. xi [1] 202 pages. Some offset browning to endpapers; former owner bookplate on front paste-down endpaper. Book slightly cocked. Dust jacket chipped at edges, missing bottom two iches of spine, split from rear panel--protected now in mylar. 112706A
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Details
- Bookseller
- Alkahest Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000015818
- Title
- WINTER WORDS: In Various Moods and Metres
- Author
- Hardy, Thomas
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- first edition.
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1928
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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Alkahest Books
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Deerfield, Illinois
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Alkahest Books was established in1984. We started as an open shop on Central St. in Evanston, IL, and sold books there until 2002 and later were part of Chicago Rare Book Center which closed in 2017. We are members of the Midwest Antiquarian Booksellers Association, and IOBA and sell both online and at book fairs. International customers should ask for a shipping quote before ordering as the rates given are only for smaller books.
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- Offset
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- Edges
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- Paste-down
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- Cloth
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- Cocked
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- Spine
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- Bookplate
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- 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...
- Jacket
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- Octavo
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- First Edition
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