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Hot Water (The Collector's Wodehouse)
by WODEHOUSE, P.G
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Previous owner's rune bookplate to front pastedown, otherwise nearly fine in fine dust jacket. A mere trace of spotting to edges
- Seller
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Asheville, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
Woodstock: The Overlook Press, 2003. First Thus. Hardcover. Previous owner's rune bookplate to front pastedown, otherwise nearly fine in fine dust jacket. A mere trace of spotting to edges.. 12mo. 5.25 x 7.5 in. 294, [10] pp. Full powder blue cloth, titled in gilt on spine, with white & yellow candy stripe endpapers; in pictorial dust jacket. Published as part of The Collector's Wodehouse; first printing. A very attractive edition.
Synopsis
P.G. Wodehouse was born in 1881. He is the creator of Jeeves, Blandings Castle, Psmith, Ukridge, Uncle Fred and Mr Mulliner stories and novels.
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- Bookseller
- Irving Book Company
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 402
- Title
- Hot Water (The Collector's Wodehouse)
- Author
- WODEHOUSE, P.G
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Previous owner's rune bookplate to front pastedown, otherwise nearly fine in fine dust jacket. A mere trace of spotting to edges
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Thus
- Publisher
- The Overlook Press
- Place of Publication
- Woodstock
- Date Published
- 2003
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Irving Book Company
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Asheville, North Carolina
About Irving Book Company
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- Fine
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- Cloth
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- Spine
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- Edges
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- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
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