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Rogue's Gallery, With Drawings in Black and White
by Barker, K. F
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London and Toronto: William Heinemann Ltd., 1939. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Quarto. 135 pages. Hardcover in white cloth. The binding is soiled, has foxing. The back cover has more soiling than the front. Spine is foxed, toned. The prior owner's name is written at top of front flyleaf. Endpapers are toned. Half title page is very toned. Text is foxed, has toning. There are a lot of lovely sketches of dogs, in black and white.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 048324
- Title
- Rogue's Gallery, With Drawings in Black and White
- Author
- Barker, K. F
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition First Printing
- Publisher
- William Heinemann Ltd.
- Place of Publication
- London and Toronto
- Date Published
- 1939
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾ - 12"
- Weight
- 2.90 lbs
- Keywords
- 1939; K. F. Barker; Dogs; Animals; Pets; Art; Drawings; Illustrated.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Art; Animals;
Terms of Sale
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
14 day return guarantee, with full refund if an item arrives mis-described or damaged. Buyer pays return shipping.
About the Seller
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Biblio member since 2017
Greensboro, North Carolina
About Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- 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....
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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