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The Image of a Drawn Sword
by Brooke, Jocelyn
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Fair
- Seller
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edinburgh, Midlothian, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: The Bodley Head, 1950. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. P Vinton. First Edition. 8vo, pictorial dust jacket over red cloth boards with gilt titles on spine. Upper edge red. 183pp. Dust jacket price clipped, some edge wear, repair and loss of jacket to upper spine. Inner book very good and clean, slight sunning on upper spine. ‘The idea is magnificent and disturbing, the writing superb.’
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- Bookseller
- Bird's Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2521
- Title
- The Image of a Drawn Sword
- Author
- Brooke, Jocelyn
- Illustrator
- P Vinton
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- The Bodley Head
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1950
- Keywords
- 20th century fiction, british novel, queer literature, gay literature
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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