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Old Mrs Chundle. A Short Story.
by MERRYMOUNT PRESS. HARDY, Thomas. UPDIKE, Daniel Berkeley
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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LONDON, Greater London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
New York: Crosby Gaige, 1929. No. 249 of 700 copies (of an edition limited to 755 copies). Title page vignette, head and tail pieces. Printed on Zanders handmade paper by Updike at The Merrymount Press. Pp. vi, 29. 155 x 220 mms. 8vo., original green cloth over patterned paper boards, gilt lettering to spine, fore and lower edges uncut, in toned and chipped glassine wrapper. Very mild darkening on very edges, otherwise a very good copy.||Written by Hardy between 1880 and 1890, ‘Old Mrs Chundle’ was intended to be included in the either of the volumes ‘Life’s Little Ironies’ or ‘Wessex Tales’.|Smith 683.
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- Bookseller
- SOPHIE SCHNEIDEMAN RARE BOOKS
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8176
- Title
- Old Mrs Chundle. A Short Story.
- Author
- MERRYMOUNT PRESS. HARDY, Thomas. UPDIKE, Daniel Berkeley
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Crosby Gaige
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1929
- Keywords
- Updike;Thomas Hardy Book,Private Press, Printing & Typography
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About the Seller
SOPHIE SCHNEIDEMAN RARE BOOKS
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LONDON, Greater London
About SOPHIE SCHNEIDEMAN RARE BOOKS
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- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Edges
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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....
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Glassine Wrapper
- A thin, partially transparent or translucent paper covering often used ...
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