Epithalamium in Time of War
Language: English
Published by Privately Printed, New York, 1941
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Pocock Rare Books, Wareham, Dorset, United KingdomPocock Rare Books
AbeBooks seller since August 6, 2025
Condition: Used - Very good
£ 425.00
Quantity: 1 available
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12pp. Octavo, quarter bound in publisher's original green cloth over gray, lettered gilt. With the original glassine wrapper. Glassine is sunned and nicked, cloth is bright if a little marked in places. Internally bright and clean with light foxing through endpapers. This edition is limited to one hundred copies designed and printed by L. F. White Co., Inc., N. Y. C. of which this is number 80. Inscribed on the FFEP "For Carol Cassidy, with best wishes - Ralph Gustafson, June 1942". Just the third work of prolific Canadian writer and educator Ralph Gustafson (1909 - 1995), who would go on to win multiple awards. Carol Cassidy (1881 - c1963) was a fellow Canadian writer who produced several Children's books under her married name Carol Cassidy Cole.
Seller Inventory # 001800
Bibliographic details
- Title
- Epithalamium in Time of War
- Author
- GUSTAFSON, Ralph
- Publisher
- Privately Printed, New York
- Publication year
- 1941
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- Poor
- Signed
- Inscribed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
- Item weight
- 156 grams
- Dimensions
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
Pocock Rare Books
Wareham, Dorset, United Kingdom
AbeBooks seller since August 6, 2025
Shipping rates from United Kingdom to U.S.A.
| Item | 5 to 10 business days | 14 to 45 business days |
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Pocock Rare Books
United Kingdom
Pocock Rare Books is a Sole Trader entity since 2019.
Grace Barham
Bittles Green, Dorset, SP79NX
contact@pocockrarebooks.co.uk, 07528159007
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