Bouyant Billions a Comedy of No Manners in Prose & Pictures By Bernard Shaw & Clare Winsten
by Shaw, Bernard
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
UK: Constable & Co, 1949. Hardcover 1st thus in a limited edition, decorative cloth boards with vellum spine. Only 1025 copies of this delightfully illustrated edition were produced, 1000 numbered - THIS PARTICULAR COPY BEING NUMBER 139 - and 25 lettered A-Y. This copy is in fine shape - only presents a little bumping of the corners and a tiny amount of age toning confined primarily to the endpapers and prelims. A superior copy of this wonderful edition containing 19 plates by Winsten.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. Illus. by Winsten, Clare.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Turtle Creek Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 092626
- Title
- Bouyant Billions a Comedy of No Manners in Prose & Pictures By Bernard Shaw & Clare Winsten
- Author
- Shaw, Bernard
- Illustrator
- Winsten, Clare
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Constable & Co
- Place of Publication
- UK
- Date Published
- 1949
- Keywords
- AEBE
- Bookseller catalogs
- .Theatre, Drama & Plays - Plays;
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About the Seller
Turtle Creek Books
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Mississauga, Ontario
About Turtle Creek Books
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- Vellum
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- First Edition
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- Spine
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- Cloth
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- Fine
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