DUMB INSTRUMENT.
by WELCH, Denton. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Jean-Louis Chevalier. Decorations by Denton Welch
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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YORK, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Enitharmon Press, 1976. . First edition, 8vo., pp.58, two-tone cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece, in-text illustrations; neat ownership bookplate to front paste-down endpaper (largely covered by flap of dust-jacket), foxing to top edges, a near-fine copy, in very good price-clipped dust-jacket, which is lightly partially toned, with slight rubbing to edges.
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- Bookseller
- MINSTER GATE BOOKSHOP
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 36894
- Title
- DUMB INSTRUMENT.
- Author
- WELCH, Denton. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Jean-Louis Chevalier. Decorations by Denton Welch
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London: Enitharmon Press, 1976.
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- Rubbing
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