SHEEPSKINS AND GREY RUSSET
by E Temple Thurston and illustrations Emile Verpilleux:
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
theberton suffolk, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Cassell and Company Ltd London 1919 G (no dj, green pictorial cloth worn at edges and corners a bit limp, spine lightly wrinkled and colours faded, pale blue titles on spine, black titles and vignette of dogs on front board, orange decorated endpapers, ink signature front fixed endpaper, one weak early hinge and spine a touch wobbly but binding remaining firm, pages clean with just the occasional small speckle or smudge, browning free endpapers and last page) 12mo 308pp. First edition. Many b/w drawings throughout.
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Details
- Bookseller
- lobstabooks (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 49588
- Title
- SHEEPSKINS AND GREY RUSSET
- Author
- E Temple Thurston and illustrations Emile Verpilleux:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Cassell and Company Ltd London 1919
- Bookseller catalogs
- Humour;
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About the Seller
lobstabooks
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theberton suffolk
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- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- G
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- 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...
- Cloth
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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....
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- First Edition
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- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...