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Laughter In The Next Room: Being The Fourth Volume Of Left Hand, Right Hand!
by Sitwell, Osbert
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very good, reprint, missing d/j, brown boards, gilt on red plate spine titling; text block firm, pages crisp and unmarked.
- Seller
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Maidenhead, Berkshire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Reprint Society, 1950. reprint. h/b. Very good, reprint, missing d/j, brown boards, gilt on red plate spine titling; text block firm, pages crisp and unmarked.. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). Final and 4th volume of Osbert Sitwell's autobiography
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Details
- Bookseller
- Inklings & Yarnspinners
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- IYC132562
- Title
- Laughter In The Next Room: Being The Fourth Volume Of Left Hand, Right Hand!
- Author
- Sitwell, Osbert
- Format/Binding
- H/b
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good, reprint, missing d/j, brown boards, gilt on red plate spine titling; text block firm, pages crisp and unmarked.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- reprint
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Reprint Society
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1950
- Pages
- 374
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- autobiography, memoir, Sitwell, reprint
- Bookseller catalogs
- 2nd-hand books;
- Size
- 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_\"\" x 5\"\")
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Inklings & Yarnspinners
Biblio member since 2021
Maidenhead, Berkshire
About Inklings & Yarnspinners
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- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
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