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THE ATTRACTIONS OF FRANCE
by Chatwin, Bruce
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New Haven, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
[London]: The Colophon Press, 1993.. Small quarto. Stiff wrapper, printed label. Slight crease along top edge of lower wrapper panel, faint pencil acquisition inscription in upper forecorner of the front free endsheet, otherwise fine. First edition. From an edition of 211 copies printed on Vélin d'Arches, this is one of 175 regular copies. Laid in is a 1992 t.l.s. from a well-known London bookseller to the former owner, a well known curator/editor, drawing his attention to the appearance of the typescript of this essay at a 15 December Sotheby's London sale raising funds for the London Library. He comments on the £5-600 estimate: "In normal circumstances I would regard this as quite high enough, but the charity element enters into the picture and makes predictions harder than usual...." It sold for £620.
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- Bookseller
- William Reese Company - Literature ABAA-ILAB
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- WRCLIT84658
- Title
- THE ATTRACTIONS OF FRANCE
- Author
- Chatwin, Bruce
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The Colophon Press
- Place of Publication
- [London]
- Date Published
- 1993.
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William Reese Company - Literature ABAA-ILAB
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About William Reese Company - Literature ABAA-ILAB
Since 1975, William Reese Company has served a large international clientele of collectors and private and public institutions in the acquisition of rare books and manuscripts and in collection development.
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With a catalogued inventory of over thirty thousand items, and a general inventory of over sixty-five thousand items, we are among the leading specialists in the fields of Americana and world travel, and maintain a large and eclectic inventory of literary first editions and antiquarian books of the 18th through 20th centuries.
We issue frequent, and substantial, catalogues in our fields of specialization.
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Colophon
- The colophon contains information about a book's publisher, the typesetting, printer, and possibly even includes a printer's...
- 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...
- First Edition
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