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A Clip of Steel
de BLACKBURN, Thomas
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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London: Macgibbon & Kee, 1969. First Edition. Octavo. Red cloth boards; dustjacket; 126pp. Inconspicuous faint stain to bottom edge of text block, else a fine, tight copy in unclipped, lightly edge-rubbed jacket, Near Fine. Post-war British poet's memoir of a strict Victorian upbringing and his dissipated later youth. The "clip of steel" of the title refers to a device inflicted upon the child by his father, designed to "deter nocturnal erections and to prevent the loss of vital bodily fluids.
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- Librería
- Lorne Bair Rare Books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 33955
- Título
- A Clip of Steel
- Autor
- BLACKBURN, Thomas
- Estado del libro
- Usado
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition
- Editorial
- Macgibbon & Kee
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1969
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Modern Poetry; Great Britain; Sexuality;
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Lorne Bair Rare Books
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Winchester, Virginia
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- Cloth
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- Device
- Especially for older books, a printer's device refers to an identifying mark, also sometimes called a printer's mark, on the...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
