Portraits In Miniature: Essays
by STRACHEY, Lytton
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Stockport, Cheshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Chatto & Windus, 1931. Hardback. First edition, 1931. Green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Good condition; boards rubbed, bumps to corners and spine, foxing to fore edges and endapers, deckle edges, pages clean and tightly bound, ex-libris bookplate to fep in Good minus unclipped dust jacket: edgeworn and tanned with some small chips. Published: Chatto & Windus, 1931
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Details
- Bookseller
- Roy Turner Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12758
- Title
- Portraits In Miniature: Essays
- Author
- STRACHEY, Lytton
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus
- Date Published
- 1931
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About the Seller
Roy Turner Books
Biblio member since 2017
Stockport, Cheshire
About Roy Turner Books
With more than thirty years' experience of collecting literary first editions, I specialise in the areas of both contemporary and earlier fiction, poetry, drama and children's books with particular emphases on signed modern firsts, authors' first and early published books, American and Irish literature and literary prize-winning writers.
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