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by YATES, Dornford
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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London, London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Ward, Lock & Co., 1949. 8vo, pp. 286. Original black boards, lettered in gold on spine. Some foxing to edges of text block and preliminaries. In a rather tired but complete pictorial dustwrapper. First edition. One of the Chandos books, written in the characteristic Yates style -- a style once described by Alan Bennett as 'snobbery with violence'.
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- Bookseller
- Neil Pearson Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1247
- Title
- Cost Price
- Author
- YATES, Dornford
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London: Ward, Lock & Co., 1949
- Keywords
- Modern First Editions
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- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....