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Rhymes Without Reason
by Mervyn Peake
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good Plus/Good
- Seller
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West Molesey, Surrey, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1944. First edition of this book, 39 pages in overall clean condition just some very light browning to endpapers, previous owners details neatly written on front endpaper, small diagonal creases to bottom corners of pages where previous owner has turned pages, these are soft creases like bends in the paper not hard folded over creases.Many full page colour illustrations by author ,all present as published. Dustwrapper is a little marked with some losses and tears, not price clipped. Outer boards are a little dusty to edges and top and bottom of spine. Though not perfect still a presentable example of this book SEE IMAGES. DETAILED IMAGES AVAILABLE ON REQUEST . First Edition. Cloth Covered Boards.. Good Plus/Good. Illus. by Mervyn Peake. 9 ¼ x 7 Inches. Hardcover.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Books Bought and Sold
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 009064
- Title
- Rhymes Without Reason
- Author
- Mervyn Peake
- Illustrator
- Mervyn Peake
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Plus
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Eyre and Spottiswoode
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1944
- Size
- 9 ¼ x 7 Inches
- Keywords
- Verses, Poetry, Illustrated, Mervyn Peake Illustrator , Noisbn
- Bookseller catalogs
- Illustrated; Poetry;
Terms of Sale
Books Bought and Sold
Books sent by cheapest post unless requested otherwise.Books of value 50 or more will be sent air insured.Postage at cost,books can be returned within 7 days of receipt and by prior notice if not as described, for full refund.
About the Seller
Books Bought and Sold
Biblio member since 2005
West Molesey, Surrey
About Books Bought and Sold
Formerly a bookshop in East Molesey since 1994,now trading solely on internet and at book fairs.Stock can be viewed by appointment only, all books for sale are clean and in a desirable condition.www.booksinstore.co.uk Books described accurately and despatched promptly.Books removed from lists as soon as sold.All books packed in Tuf Pac book boxes for safe transit.
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- Cloth
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- First Edition
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- Dustwrapper
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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....
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
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