The Poetic Image
by Day Lewis, Cecil
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0224601423
- ISBN 13
- 9780224601429
- Seller
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St. Paul, Minnesota, United States
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About This Item
Oxford, 1947, 1947. Hardcover. Day Lewis, Cecil : The Poetic Image. New York : Oxford University Press HB, 1947. Size is octavo (8vo), 7 7/8"/20cm h. Bound in publisher's burnt orange cloth, gilt lettering imprinted to spine. Plain white endpapers. 157 numbered pages, plus three blank following. Six chapters, each a 1946 lecture at Cambridge University, UK. Condition notes: missing DJ/wrapper. Heavy sunning /discoloration to bottom inch of boards. Corners bumped, spine ends rolled. Binding solid and square. Pages tanned but clean, a few scattered pencil notes, otherwise no highlighting or inscriptions. Day Lewis (as written here) or Day-Lewis, was poet laureate of the UK from 1968 to his death in 1972. Father of Daniel Day-Lewis. We personally inspect every book we offer.
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- Bookseller
- Furrowed Brow Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 210318003
- Title
- The Poetic Image
- Author
- Day Lewis, Cecil
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0224601423
- ISBN 13
- 9780224601429
- Publisher
- Oxford, 1947
- Date Published
- 1947
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Furrowed Brow Books was established in 2020. The bookstore's owner, Paul Purman, grew up in a magical, historic farmhouse in piedmont Maryland stuffed with books. In 2021 Paul was accepted as a member of the Independent Online Booksellers' Association (IOBA), and graduated from the annual Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar (CABS-Minnesota).
We're happy to discuss making an offer on a collection in one of our specialty areas.
Dealer discount of 20%; we simply ask that you reciprocate with a discount of 20%.
Thanks for stopping by!
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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...
- New
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- Cloth
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- Spine
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Rolled
- rolled spine or spine rolled. Damage to a book created by pressure to the spine making it fold or crease in the cover. Damage...