Ver a tamaño completo.
In a Province
de van der Post, Laurens
- Usado
- First
- Estado
- Original green cloth, spine lettered in black. Near fine copy in near fine dust jacket with design by Anthony Butts
- Librería
-
New York, New York, United States
Formas de pago aceptadas
Sobre este artículo
London: Hogarth Press, 1934. First edition, lower pastedown and jacket stamped Colonial Cloth Edition. 350 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in black. Near fine copy in near fine dust jacket with design by Anthony Butts. First edition, lower pastedown and jacket stamped Colonial Cloth Edition. 350 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. First Book, in Superior Condition. First book by Laurens van der Post, who edited with William Plomer (whose debut novel Turbott Wolfe was also published by the Woolfs)
"Plomer and Campbell, with the help of a young Afrikaner journalist, Laurens van der Post, edited and wrote almost the entire contents of Voorslag during 1926. This, the first bilingual South African literary journal, attacked race prejudice as Turbott Wolfe had done, and produced the same angry reaction" (ODNB).
A choice copy with the dust jacket. Both book and dust jacket are stamped in ink Colonial Cloth Edition (Woolmer does not note such a variant).
SCARCE. Woolmer 353
"Plomer and Campbell, with the help of a young Afrikaner journalist, Laurens van der Post, edited and wrote almost the entire contents of Voorslag during 1926. This, the first bilingual South African literary journal, attacked race prejudice as Turbott Wolfe had done, and produced the same angry reaction" (ODNB).
A choice copy with the dust jacket. Both book and dust jacket are stamped in ink Colonial Cloth Edition (Woolmer does not note such a variant).
SCARCE. Woolmer 353
Reseñas
(¡Iniciar sesión or Crear una cuenta primero!)
Detalles
- Librería
- James Cummins Bookseller
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 352048
- Título
- In a Province
- Autor
- van der Post, Laurens
- Formato/Encuadernación
- 350 pp. 1 vols. 8vo
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Original green cloth, spine lettered in black. Near fine copy in near fine dust jacket with design by Anthony Butts
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First edition, lower pastedown and jacket stamped Colonial Cloth
- Editorial
- Hogarth Press
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1934
- Palabras clave
- First Book | British
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Literature;
Términos de venta
James Cummins Bookseller
All items, as usual, are guaranteed as described and are returnable within 30 days if not as described. Within the United States, all books are shipped UPS unless otherwise requested (please provide a street address). Overseas orders should specify shipping preference. All postage is extra. New clients are requested to send remittance with your orders. Libraries may apply for deferred billing. All New York and New Jersey residents must add the appropriate sales tax. We accept American Express, Master Card, and Visa. All items are subject to prior sale; prices are subject to change.
Sobre el vendedor
James Cummins Bookseller
Miembro de Biblio desde 2009
New York, New York
Sobre James Cummins Bookseller
Founded in 1978 by James Cummins, the firm has grown to include two New Jersey locations as well as the main store at 699 Madison Avenue (between 62nd and 63rd Streets) in New York City.Hours: Monday - Friday 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. (During July & August, until 4:00 p.m. on Fridays.)The Madison Avenue store is a seventh-floor oasis for book-lovers, a quiet and pleasantly furnished book room with a carefully chosen, expertly catalogued and broad-based selection of fine and rare books, autographs, manuscripts, and works of art. We have built notable private collections for American and international clients. Our stock is always changing, and our steady input from private buying and public auctions assures our clients of new surprises (and temptations!) at each visit. Our stock covers a wide range of collecting interests, with particular emphasis in the following fields: British and American Literature, Sporting Books, Private Press and Illustrated Books, 19th-Century Color Plate Books, Americana, Travel, Sets and Fine Bindings, History, and Authors' Manuscripts and Letters. Our catalogued inventory exceeds 50,000 titles, much of which can be searched on the internet. In addition, our New Jersey warehouse contains over 400,000 books in all subject areas. We might have the books you're looking for.
Glosario
Algunos términos que podrían usarse en esta descripción incluyen:
- 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....
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
