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Selected Poems
by T. S. Eliot
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Acceptable/Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Faber and Faber, 1954. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1954. First edition thus. 127 pages. Red jacket over blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. Pages have slight foxing, tanning and minor thumbing. Pronounced marginalia, underlining and other annotations. Endpapers have strips of tanning caused by jacket. Ex libris plate to front endpaper. Pencil inscriptions to front endpaper. A few dog-eared corners. Boards have some moderate edge wear, with slight bumping to corners and minor bumping to spine ends. Unclipped jacket in poor condition, with large areas of loss, heavy tears, creases, and marks. Jacket is slightly rubbed and marked overall. Owner's name to front flap.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1625474730ADA
- Title
- Selected Poems
- Author
- T. S. Eliot
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable/Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber
- Date Published
- 1954
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About the Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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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...
- Spine
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- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Marginalia
- Marginalia, in brief, are notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner. This is very...
- Poor
- A book with significant wear and faults. A poor condition book is still a reading copy with the full text still readable. Any...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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