SUMMARY
A very smart, first edition poetry collection by American poet Robert Lowell.
First Edition,Publishers' Original Binding,With Dustwrapper
Overall Condition: Near Fine
This book weighs 0.5 KG when packed
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DESCRIPTION
With the original unclipped dustwrapper.
Robert Lowell wrote a lot about his family history through his poetry. His upbringing in Boston also informed his creative work, as his poems were frequently set in Boston and the New England region.
A very smart collection of poems, of which the first seventy pages were first published in America under the title 'Lord Weary's Castle'. Several of the poems previously appeared in another of Lowell's books titled 'Land of Unlikeness'. Lowell notes to the start of the work 'here and there elsewhere I have adapted lines and phrases.
CONDITION
In the publisher's original cloth binding. With original unclipped dustwrapper. Externally, excellent with minor shelfwear. Dustwrapper is generally smart with sunning to the spine. Light chips to the head and tail of spine. Prior owner's inscription to the recto of front endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean.
Overall Condition: Near Fine Very Good Indeed
GLOSSARY OF TERMS
Overall Condition
(Dustwrapper condition rating is shown after that for the book itself, where a dustwrapper is present)
Fine - Very well preserved copy showing very little wear
Very Good Indeed - Only one or two minor faults, really a very attractive copy
Very Good - Quite a wide term meaning no major faults but probably several smaller ones
often expected given the age of the book, but still a respectable copy
Good - Meaning not very good. Some more serious faults as will
be described in the condition report under 'condition'
Good Only - Meaning one or more faults that could really do with repair
Fair - As with good only above but with other faults
leaving a compromised copy even after repair
Poor - Really bad and possibly seriously incomplete.
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