THE HOUSE THAT BERRY BUILT.
by YATES, Dornford" - [MERCER, Cecil William, 1885-1960] :
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London : Ward, Lock & Co., (1945). First edition. "As I see it, Major Pleydell, the exact position is this. When you and your cousins inherited White Ladies, the cost of maintaining the place as your father and his brother had maintained it was less than three thousand a year. To-day it is nearly eight thousand – eight thousand pounds".
Crown 8vo (20cm). 286,[ii]pp. Original pale blue cloth, lettered across spine in black; a very good, clean and sound copy in the original pictorial Campbell dust-jacket – a little sunned, reinforced in places and lightly edge-worn at foot.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ash Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 38549
- Title
- THE HOUSE THAT BERRY BUILT.
- Author
- YATES, Dornford" - [MERCER, Cecil William, 1885-1960] :
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London : Ward, Lock & Co., (1945).
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- English Literature, Fiction
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Ash Rare Books
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London
About Ash Rare Books
Ash Rare Books. Founded in 1946 and long one of London's more interesting small book businesses. Owned and run by Laurence Worms, former President of the ABA.
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- First Edition
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- Sunned
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- Spine
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