Before the Bombardment.
by SITWELL, OSBERT
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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San Francisco, California, United States
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About This Item
London: Duckworth, 1926. FIRST EDITION. Page edges and preliminary leaves foxed. Orange cloth stamped in black. Binding very bright and fresh. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with a narrow chip at bottom of rear flap fold and a very small chip at top right hand corner of front panel. Nice copy of the author's first novel, highly uncommon in jacket and in this condition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Robert Dagg Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 26802
- Title
- Before the Bombardment.
- Author
- SITWELL, OSBERT
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- FIRST EDITION
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Duckworth
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1926
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Robert Dagg Rare Books
Biblio member since 2008
San Francisco, California
About Robert Dagg Rare Books
By appointment only premises, with sales occurring on the internet, at bookfairs, through catalogs and via direct quotation. Established 1989.
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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...
- Leaves
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
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