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The Caravan Goes West - Signed 1st Edition
by Lucy W BELLHOUSE
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good-/Fair
- Seller
-
Husbands Bosworth, Leicestershire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
UK 1st Edition, 1948. Colour frontispiece, with black/white illustrations by Jetta Vise throughout. Near Very Good condition with minor fading to upper covers and tail of spine (where cloth has been exposed by chips to the dustwrapper). Strips of toning to endpapers and pastedowns. Inscribed by the author to the front endpaper "with best wishes from Lucy W. Bellhouse". No other inscriptions. In Fair dustwrapper, which has separated at the spine, and has large edge chips / tears. (The dustwrapper is now protected by an archival quality, transparent, non-adhesive cover, which can easily be removed if so desired).
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Details
- Bookseller
- Itchen Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 774
- Title
- The Caravan Goes West - Signed 1st Edition
- Author
- Lucy W BELLHOUSE
- Illustrator
- Jetta VISE
- Format/Binding
- Original orange cloth covered boards, decorated in black. In unclipped dustwrapper.
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition / 1st Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- George G Harrap & Co Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1948
- Pages
- 92
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
Terms of Sale
Itchen Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged. Refund issued on receipt of returned item.
About the Seller
Itchen Books
Biblio member since 2019
Husbands Bosworth, Leicestershire
About Itchen Books
20th Century first editions with some older items. Specialist areas of interest include Russian literature, Irish literature.
Glossary
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- Inscribed
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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...
- 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....
- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
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