Bits
by ABLEMAN, Paul
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Wareham, Dorset, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Latimer Press, 1969. 45pp. Original publisher's orange buckram lettered and stamped in gilt, with the corresponding decorative dustwrapper. Wrapper toned, with some smoke damage and marking, with minor tearing. Boards bright and sharp with a small snag to buckram of rear board. Whilst the book holds the odour of smoke, it is internally bright and clean, inscribed 'For The Good Lady Olwyn devotedly Paul'. From the estate of Olwyn Hughes, recently dispersed. Paul Ableman (1927-2006) was an English playwright, poet, and novelist. Olwyn Hughes (1928-2016) was a translator, agent and literary executor who had worked in Paris for NATO, Martonplay, and King Peter II of Yugoslavia, among others. After the death of her sister-in-law Sylvia Plath, she returned to England to assist her brother, Ted Hughes, raise his young children, though also took over the management of both his career and Plath's literary estate. While she did have some other clients as a literary agent, including Jean Rhys, much of the rest of her life was dedicated to preserving - and defending - both Plath and Hughes. . First edition. Small quarto.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Antiquates Ltd (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- AQ29561
- Title
- Bits
- Author
- ABLEMAN, Paul
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Latimer Press
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1969
- Size
- Small quarto
- Keywords
- Literature
Terms of Sale
Antiquates Ltd
Antiquates Ltd was established by Tom Lintern-Mole in 2007; we travel far and wide to buy, sell, and advise on rare books and manuscripts.
Concentrating on hand-press printing and early modern manuscripts, we pride ourselves on offering a varied selection of antiquarian works on a diverse range of subjects, leaning towards the interesting, the important, and the unusual.
We have a countryside bookshop in Wareham; we also regularly issue catalogues - do ask if you would like to be added to our mailing list - and frequently exhibit at regional and national book fairs in London, Bristol, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Oxford, and York.
We also offer a valuation service (for either insurance or probate purposes), as well as advice on library development.
Concentrating on hand-press printing and early modern manuscripts, we pride ourselves on offering a varied selection of antiquarian works on a diverse range of subjects, leaning towards the interesting, the important, and the unusual.
We have a countryside bookshop in Wareham; we also regularly issue catalogues - do ask if you would like to be added to our mailing list - and frequently exhibit at regional and national book fairs in London, Bristol, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Oxford, and York.
We also offer a valuation service (for either insurance or probate purposes), as well as advice on library development.
About the Seller
Antiquates Ltd
Biblio member since 2008
Wareham, Dorset
About Antiquates Ltd
Mail Order and Internet, but in normal times we have an antiquarian bookshop in the Dorset countryside.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- 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...
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- 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...
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...