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Cornish Feasts and FolkLore. AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY
by COURTNEY M.A
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Beare & Son, Penzance,, 1890. 8vo. First Edition, title browned; original plum cloth, gilt back, bevelled boards, patterned endpapers, a very good, bright, clean, copy. With the fine nineteenth-century engraved armorial bookplate of Joseph Bevan Braithwaite on front paste-down. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS UNSIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON TITLE. Revised and reprinted from the Folk-Lore Society Journa
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- Bookseller
- Island Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 27082
- Title
- Cornish Feasts and FolkLore. AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY
- Author
- COURTNEY M.A
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Beare & Son, Penzance,
- Date Published
- 1890
- Keywords
- topography, cornwall, feasts, folk-lore, folklore, m.a. courtney,topography, cornwall, isles of scilly, cornish, feasts, folklore
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Island Books
Biblio member since 2004
Thakeham, West Sussex
About Island Books
Fine and Rare Books at the foot of the South Downs
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