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Came to Oxford
by Gertrude Bone
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Indeed/Good
- Seller
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BATH, Somerset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Oxford: Basil Blackwell , 1952. First edition. Cloth. Very Good Indeed/Good. 11" by 9" . Muirhead Bone. The first edition of Gertrude Bone's work dedicated to the city of Oxford, with illustrations by Muirhead Bone. Exploring the history and sceneries of the city of Oxford. The first edition of this work. Written by Gertrude Bone, British author of short stories, novels, and illustrated collections.Illustrated with a colourful frontispiece and further black and white plates throughout by Muirhead Bone, Scottish etcher and watercolourist known for his depiction of industrial and architectural subjects. With unclipped dust wrapper. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally very smart with minor shelf wear only, lightly bumped to head and tail of spine. Dust wrapper with loss to spine and wraps with few minor closed tears. Internally, firmly bound. Light spotting to fore edge, affecting particularly first and last few leaves as well as occasional page throughout. Otherwise, pages generally bright and clean. Very Good Indeed
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Details
- Bookseller
- Rooke Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 861A41
- Title
- Came to Oxford
- Author
- Gertrude Bone
- Illustrator
- Muirhead Bone
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Indeed
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Basil Blackwell
- Place of Publication
- Oxford
- Date Published
- 1952
- Size
- 11" by 9"
- Keywords
- oxford muirhead bone gertrude bone first editions muirhead bone
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Rooke Books
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BATH, Somerset
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We are a small team dedicated to bringing you very scarce books at reasonable prices. We specialise in rare and hard to come by works on all subjects over the last 500 years, together with modern first editions and decorative sets and bindings. Our library has something for every interest and specialism. We deliver worldwide using a fully tracked and insured courier delivery service.
Where are We?
Based in the literary city of Bath, our offices are housed in the Eastern Dispensary. Built in 1845, the building originally existed as a charitable institution providing medical care. The building now houses our collection of over twenty thousand books and has five full time members of staff.
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- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
- 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....
- Leaves
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