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Autobiography
by Powys, John Cowper
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good- with no dust jacket
- Seller
-
Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
New York: Simon and Schuster. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1934. Hardcover. No signatures. Occasional pencil marginalia. Some rubbing and marks to boards. Some minor staining to margins of a few leaves at rear. Narrow split to gutter at rear hinge. ; First US edition. [viii], 595, [2]. [3 (blank)] pages + portrait frontispiece. Beige cloth boards with red and blue lettering and rule on spine. Front board with red border and "John Cowper Powys" printed in blue. Page dimensions: 231 x 149mm. Top page edges dyed red. An interesting autobiography. Contents: Beginning; Weymouth and Dorchester; The Preparatory; Sherborne School; Cambridge; Southwick; Court House; Burpham; Europe; America; The War; "There's a Mohawk in the Sky!" .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23435
- Title
- Autobiography
- Author
- Powys, John Cowper
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1934
Terms of Sale
Renaissance Books
Any book not as described may be returned within 14 days of receipt for a full refund.
About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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- Marginalia
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- Gutter
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- Rubbing
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- Cloth
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- Spine
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- Jacket
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