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Samphire. Poems
by JOHN COWPER POWYS
Edition: 1st Edition
Book condition: Very Good
Jacket condition: Very Good
Book Description
Thomas Seltzer, New York, 1922. First Edition, first state issue. 12mo. 53pp. Two-tone paper covered boards featuring an interconnected six-pointed star design. Paper title labels to spine and upper board. A little light wear to head and foot of spine and a small tear to the lower rear gutter. Some chafing to board edges. Endpapers partially browned. Very good in pictorial dust wrapper, dust marked and with just a fraction of loss to the head of the spine panel. Neat former owner inked to rear panel. Twenty poems, never issued separately in the UK.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.boards : Common term for the covers of a hardbound book.
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. Also known as the back.
12mo : An abbreviation for duodecimo, a book size describing a book which is approximately 7 by 4.5 inches.
gutter : The inside margin of a book, the edge of the pages nearing the binding.
endpapers : The first and last two pages (verso and recto) from the front and back of a book.
first state : used in book collecting to refer to a book from the earliest run of a first edition, generally distinguished by a change in some part of the binding or correction of the text which has been made in later versions of the first edition print run.
Book Details
- Samphire. Poems by JOHN COWPER POWYS
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Bookseller: Clearwater Books
(GB)
- Bookseller Inventory #: BC70042
- Title: Samphire. Poems
- Author: JOHN COWPER POWYS
- Format/binding: Hardcover
- Book condition: Very Good
- Jacket condition: Very Good
- Edition: 1st Edition
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Thomas Seltzer, New York
- Date published: 1922
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