Chatto & Windus, 1932. Hardback. First edition, 1932. Blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Good condition; edgeworn with bumps to corners and spine, pages tanned but clean and tightly bound, foxing to fore edges, hinge cracked, owners mark to ffep. No dust jacket. Published: Chatto & Windus, 1932

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Bookseller: Roy Turner Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 13402
Title: Fiction And The Reading Public
Author: LEAVIS, Q. D
Format/Binding: Hardback
Book Condition: Used
Quantity Available: 1
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Date Published: 1932

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With more than thirty years' experience of collecting literary first editions, I specialise in the areas of both contemporary and earlier fiction, poetry, drama and children's books with particular emphases on signed modern firsts, authors' first and early published books, American and Irish literature and literary prize-winning writers.

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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...
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