Tales of Wonder
de Lord Dunsany
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Good Plus/No Jacket
- Librería
-
Carlisle, Cumbria, United Kingdom
Formas de pago aceptadas
Sobre este artículo
London: Elkin Mathews, 1916. Scarce first edition, first printing October 1916, 187 pages with 6 illustrations by H. Sime, including frontispiece entitled 'The Bad Old Woman in Black'. Boards covered in grey paper with cream cloth spine browned to tan colour, very dark blue titles to spine and front board, the preface states: 'These are tales of peace. Those who remember peace and those who will see it again may be glad to turn their eyes, though but for a moment, away from a world of mud and blood and khaki, and to read for a while of cities too good to be true.' Edges of boards and cloth spine lightly browned, light shelfwear to corners and spine ends, some foxing to endpapers, uncut edges, light spotting to closed edges, pp clean and clear to read, binding sprung but pp secure, a tidy copy.. First Edition. Hard. Good Plus/No Jacket. Illus. by Sime, S.H.. 12mo.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Bookcase
(GB)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 63384
- Título
- Tales of Wonder
- Autor
- Lord Dunsany
- Ilustrador
- Sime, S.H.
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Good Plus
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- No Jacket
- Edición
- First Edition
- Editorial
- Elkin Mathews
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1916
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Fiction;
- Size
- 12mo
Términos de venta
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Sobre el vendedor
Bookcase
Miembro de Biblio desde 2009
Carlisle, Cumbria
Sobre Bookcase
A Georgian four-floor antiquarian bookshop in Carlisle's historic quarter specialising in Cumbria, Scotland, Mountaineering and rare finds. We are a friendly business, which was started by a local family and is run by friendly and experienced team members.
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine
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- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- First Edition
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
