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Homer and the Aether
by POWYS, JOHN COWPER
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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DUNEDIN, Auckland, New Zealand
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About This Item
Macdonald & Co 1959. First edition, octavo, green/beige cloth boards with gilt lettering to front board and gilt lettering in dark green rectangular panels to spine, 298pp + vi pp book reviews,VG+ (v slight bruising to spine extrems, tanned board edges, foxing to page edges) in d/w VG (slight bruising to spine top & bottom, 1/2 cm tear without loss to back top right fold with spine, slight chipping to spine top & bottom, foxing to interior and exterior, faded back flap edge)
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- Bookseller
- Hard To Find Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 123213
- Title
- Homer and the Aether
- Author
- POWYS, JOHN COWPER
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Macdonald & Co 1959
- Keywords
- John Cowper Powys English literature novel fiction Homer Iliad interpretation of classics literary criticism
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...