The Adventures Of A Dodo.
by POGANY, Willy (illustrator). G.E. FARROW (author)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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London, London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
1907. London; T. Fisher Unwin. [1907]. 8vo. Original dark blue cloth pictorially decorated in black, light blue and yellow and lettered in gilt to spine and upper cover, top edges blue, pictorial endpapers, fore- and lower edges untrimmed; pp. [iv], 7-245 + [vi] (publisher's catalogue); with 70 glorious illustrations in line by Pogany; a very nice copy of a scarce book, in view of the pagination possibly lacking a half-title and other prelim leaf,, externally with some light rubbing and faint dulling to spine cloth; front endpapers with a little offset-browning in two vertical strips at inner gutter, rear endpapers with similar offset browning and a vertical strip of adhesive tape to inner lower board; internally clean; scarce First edition. No copies located on the commercial market at the time of cataloguing
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Details
- Bookseller
- Henry Sotheran Ltd. (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2118138
- Title
- The Adventures Of A Dodo.
- Author
- POGANY, Willy (illustrator). G.E. FARROW (author)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Date Published
- 1907
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Henry Sotheran Ltd.
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London, London
About Henry Sotheran Ltd.
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