Swan Feather
by Hill, Lorna
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
-
Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Evans Brothers. Good with no dust jacket. (1958). First Edition. Hardcover. Previous owner's signature. Label partly removed from front endpaper. Moderate rubbing and some foxing to spine cloth. ; 190 pages. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Illustrated (illustrations of ballet dancers). Illustrated endpapers. Page dimensions: 197mm x 129mm. "But I will not finish this notice of RECENT MARRIAGES, which appeared in the Northumbrian News, because if I did, it would spoil the story. Instead, let us go back a number of years to the day of the sale of the 'effects' (as the auctioneer calls them) of Stanes Cross Vicarage in Northumberland, for it is here that we shall meet Sylvia." - from page 2. ; 8vo .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 14309
- Title
- Swan Feather
- Author
- Hill, Lorna
- Illustrator
- Verity, Esme
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Evans Brothers
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- (1958)
Terms of Sale
Renaissance Books
Any book not as described may be returned within 14 days of receipt for a full refund.
About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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....