The Women's Land Army. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
by SACKVILLE-WEST Vita
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Michael Joseph,, [1944]. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and 62 pages of plates, neat WLA veteran's signature on front free endpaper; green cloth, upper board blocked in gilt and lettered in red, backstrip lettered in red, an unusually bright, clean copy in unclipped, mildly dust-soiled dustwrapper. The standard contemporary account published for the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Cross & Ravenscroft-Hulme, A41a; Gretton, 39.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Island Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 43729
- Title
- The Women's Land Army. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
- Author
- SACKVILLE-WEST Vita
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Michael Joseph,
- Date Published
- [1944]
- Keywords
- modern first editions, modern firsts, bloomsbury, ww2, wwii, home front, land army, sackville-west, vita sackville-west
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- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- Cloth
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- 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...
- 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...