THE HISTORY OF FANNY BURNEY
by [BURNEY, Frances]: HEMLOW, Joyce
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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New Haven, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1958. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Large octavo. Gilt cloth. First edition. Frontispiece portrait and plates. Negligible corner creases, or folds, in a few early leaves, otherwise about very good in a lightly used, price-clipped dust jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Second Wind Books LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000058
- Title
- THE HISTORY OF FANNY BURNEY
- Author
- [BURNEY, Frances]: HEMLOW, Joyce
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- At the Clarendon Press
- Place of Publication
- Oxford
- Date Published
- 1958
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New Haven, Connecticut
About Second Wind Books LLC
Second Wind Books is committed to offering important British and American first editions in the Modernist vein, with an emphasis on books about books, books by and about women and adjacent admirers. Literature, poetry, small and fine press, letters and manuscripts, original artwork, photographs, are what interests us most. Our founder began bookselling under the tutelage of a truly great bookman in 2006, and is now offering that learned expertise in her own shop. Interested in offers of literature from 1900 to 1950, either for sale or to evaluate.
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- Cloth
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- Gilt
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- Octavo
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- First Edition
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- Jacket
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