Autobiography
by G. K. Chesterton
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
-
Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Hutchinson & Co. Ltd, 1936. Hardcover. Good. 1936. Limited Edition. 347 pages. No dust jacket. Quarter leather bound to green boards, with gilt lettering. This edition limited to 250 copies, this being no 58. B&W photographs throughout. Notable foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Some gutter cracking. Previous owner's name plate to front paste down, with inscription to endpaper. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with scuffing and marking to boards. Heavy sunning to spine and board edges.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1622699435MHA
- Title
- Autobiography
- Author
- G. K. Chesterton
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Hutchinson & Co. Ltd
- Date Published
- 1936
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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- Plate
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- Edges
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- Spine
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- Gilt
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- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Jacket
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