THE PRIVATEER
by DAVIOT, Gordon; [TEY, Josephine]; pseudonym of MACKINTOSH, Elizabeth:
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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York, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Peter Davies. 1952. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Publisher's original blue cloth with yellow titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A very good or better copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth with a few faint marks but bright and fresh. The contents, with a small bookseller's label to the front pastedown and some light spotting to the endpapers, are otherwise clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the rubbed, nicked and creased price-clipped dustwrapper that has several short closed tears and tiny chips at the fold corners. Uncommon in the dustwrapper. A fictionalised account of the life of the pirate Henry Morgan by the author better known as Josephine Tey. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lucius Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24779
- Title
- THE PRIVATEER
- Author
- DAVIOT, Gordon; [TEY, Josephine]; pseudonym of MACKINTOSH, Elizabeth:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First edition, first printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London: Peter Davies. 1952
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Lucius Books
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York, North Yorkshire
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Glossary
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- 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....
- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...