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Black Lamb and Grey Falcon. The Record of a Journey Through Yugoslavia in 1937.
by REBECCA WEST
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Macmillan & Co. Ltd., London, 1941. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition, complete in two volumes. Rebound into green smooth-weave cloth with new plain green endpapers replacing the original map-illustrated examples. The first volume bound without the half-title. Times Book Club inkstamps to the base of both rear pastedowns, suggesting that this binding, which is slightly cheaper than the original, may have been produced for the Club. 8vo. xi, 653pp and vii, 586pp. With 32 plates over both volumes, presented on slightly thicker paperstock. Some bruising to the backstrip ends. Tips of several corners knocked. Brief former owner gift inscriptions dated 1945 to both front free endpapers. A nice crisp set. No dust wrappers..
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- Seller
- Clearwater Books
(GB)
- Seller's Inventory #
- BC18571
- Title
- Black Lamb and Grey Falcon. The Record of a Journey Through Yugoslavia in 1937.
- Author
- REBECCA WEST
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Macmillan & Co. Ltd., London
- Date Published
- 1941
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Clearwater Books
Biblio member since 2006
London
About Clearwater Books
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- Rebound
- A book in which the pages have been bound into a covering replacing the original covering issued by the publisher.
- First Edition
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- Crisp
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- New
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- Wrappers
- The paper covering on the outside of a paperback. Also see the entry for pictorial wraps, color illustrated coverings for...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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