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Autobiography (FIRST EDITION)
by John Cowper Powys
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good /No Jacket
- Seller
-
Hendersonville, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
London: John Lane the Bodley Head, 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good /No Jacket. First edition. Lacking dust jacket. Owner's signature on front end paper. Frontispiece copy of drawing in toned red medium of Powys's profile. Light underlining and marginalia on a majority of the pages in graphite. Very light foxing on the edges of some pages and heavier foxing on the front pages and fly page. 652 pp. Top edge of pages is a light red color but has white spotting/discoloration. Cover boards with brown publisher's cloth and gilt lettering. There is a very small hole near the bottom of the spine and there is some very light rubbing along the edges of the cover. Overall very good condition. Full refund if not satisfied.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Shelley and Son Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 066647
- Title
- Autobiography (FIRST EDITION)
- Author
- John Cowper Powys
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- John Lane the Bodley Head
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1934
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Powys, Powys brothers, literature, writing, essays, lecture, novel, poet, poetry, writer, author, biography, autobiography
Terms of Sale
Shelley and Son Books
I offer a full refund if not satisfied as long as the book is returned in the same condition as sent.
About the Seller
Shelley and Son Books
Biblio member since 2005
Hendersonville, North Carolina
About Shelley and Son Books
We specialize in books by and about C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, the Inklings, and their Friends.
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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...
- Edges
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Marginalia
- Marginalia, in brief, are notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner. This is very...
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