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A Miscellany
by Bradley, A.C
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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About This Item
London: Macmillan. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean and secure in original dark blue cloth binding with bright gilt lettering at spin in very good dustjacket Essays on Tennyson, Jane Austen, Shelley, Coleridge, Keats and Shakespeare, among others. Dark blue cloth, gilt bright on spine in very good dustjacket with a chip at head of spine and a shallow chip at base of spine. Bradley was professor for poetry at the University of Oxford and member of Balliol College. Essays include: 'English Poetry and German Philosophy in the Age of Wordsworth,' 'Odours and Flowers in the Poetry of Shelley,' ' Jane Austin,' 'Keats and Philosophy,' 'Scene Endings in Shakespeare,' 'Feste the Jester,' etc. A very nice example of this scarce Bradley first edition. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Antiquarian Book Shop
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 44696
- Title
- A Miscellany
- Author
- Bradley, A.C
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1929
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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Antiquarian Book Shop
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- Spine
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- First Edition
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- Cloth
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- Fine
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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...
- 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...
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