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The Snow Goose. Illustrations by Peter Scott. [First Illustrated Edition.] FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
de GALLICO Paul
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Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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Sobre este artículo
Michael Joseph,, [1946]. 8vo., First Edition thus, with title and text in blue and black, coloured frontispiece, 3 coloured plates, numerous monochrome illustrations (3 full-page) in the text and illustrated endpapers; original pictorial blue buckram, snow goose motif blocked in white and black on upper board, backstrip lettered in white, a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter chipped with loss at edges and several small closed tears. FIRST APPEARANCE OF SCOTT'S CLASSIC ILLUSTRATED EDITION. The frontispiece portrait of Fritha is modelled on Scott's first wife, novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard: 'I stood for hours, holding a pillow, which he turned into the wounded snow goose' (Howard's memoirs). VERY SCARCE IN THE DUSTWRAPPER.
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- Librería
- Island Books
(GB)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 48342
- Título
- The Snow Goose. Illustrations by Peter Scott. [First Illustrated Edition.] FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
- Autor
- GALLICO Paul
- Estado del libro
- Usado
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Editorial
- Michael Joseph,
- Fecha de publicación
- [1946]
- Palabras clave
- illustrated, modern first editions, modern firsts, paul gallico, peter scott, snow goose, dunkirk, elizabeth jane howard
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Sobre el vendedor
Island Books
Miembro de Biblio desde 2004
Thakeham, West Sussex
Sobre Island Books
Fine and Rare Books at the foot of the South Downs
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- Crisp
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- Edges
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- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- First Edition
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