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THE WATER BEETLE
by MITFORD, Nancy
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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New Haven, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1962. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Osbert Lancaster:. Gilt cloth. Frontis, plates, and jacket design by Osbert Lancaster. First edition of this collection of essays on subjects both domestic and foreign, and, indeed, presented under the headings: "English," and "Foreign." Some foxing to edges and to the concluding leaves, else very good in a bright pictorial dust jacket. The dust jacket is a pictorial recreation by Lancaster of a 1906 photograph of Nancy Mitford, aged two, with her mother and father, the Lord and Lady Redesdale. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Second Wind Books LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000122
- Title
- THE WATER BEETLE
- Author
- MITFORD, Nancy
- Illustrator
- Osbert Lancaster:
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Hamish Hamilton
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1962
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- Edges
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- Cloth
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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...