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The Oxford Book of Ballads
by KINSLEY, JAMES (Editor)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good. Spine cocked, heavy soiling to covers. Dampstain to bottom fore-corner of textblock. Text otherwise clean and bright. Bind
- Seller
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Asheville, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969. First Thus. Hardcover. Good. Spine cocked, heavy soiling to covers. Dampstain to bottom fore-corner of textblock. Text otherwise clean and bright. Binding otherwise secure. Lacking dust jacket.. Crown 8vo. 5 x 7.5 in. 711, [1 blank] pp. Publisher's Oxford blue cloth, titled and ornamented in gilt. From the library of Univ. of Dallas Classics Professor Karl Maurer, with his ownership signature in orange pencil to front flyleaf, and several notes in pencil to rear endpapers.
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- Bookseller
- Irving Book Company
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1362
- Title
- The Oxford Book of Ballads
- Author
- KINSLEY, JAMES (Editor)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good. Spine cocked, heavy soiling to covers. Dampstain to bottom fore-corner of textblock. Text otherwise clean and bright. Bind
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Thus
- Publisher
- Clarendon Press
- Place of Publication
- Oxford
- Date Published
- 1969
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Asheville, North Carolina
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