CROTTY SHINKWIN: A TALE OF THE STRANGE ADVENTURE THAT BEFELL A BUTCHER OF COUNTY CLARE; and THE BEAUTY SPOT: A TALE CONCERNING THE CHILTERNS
by Coppard, A. E
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Collectible-Very Good/No Dust Jacket, as Issued
- Seller
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Williamsburg, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Waltham Saint Lawrence, Berkshire, England: Golden Cockerel Press, 1932. 69 pages. Limited edition: #199 of 500 copies printed in letterpress on laid paper. Half leather over blue patterned paper-covered boards. Illustrted with original wood engravings by Gibbings. The book is clean and tight with moderate sunning along the spine; light tanning all-edges; previous owner's bookplate on front paste-down endpaper.. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Collectible-Very Good/No Dust Jacket, as Issued. Illus. by Robert Gibbings. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.
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- Bookseller
- Tennyson Williams, Books and Fine Art
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- W1395
- Title
- CROTTY SHINKWIN: A TALE OF THE STRANGE ADVENTURE THAT BEFELL A BUTCHER OF COUNTY CLARE; and THE BEAUTY SPOT: A TALE CONCERNING THE CHILTERNS
- Author
- Coppard, A. E
- Illustrator
- Robert Gibbings
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Collectible-Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket, as Issued
- Edition
- First Edition Thus
- Publisher
- Golden Cockerel Press
- Place of Publication
- Waltham Saint Lawrence, Berkshire, England
- Date Published
- 1932
- Bookseller catalogs
- Illustrated Books; Small Press;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Terms of Sale
Tennyson Williams, Books and Fine Art
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About the Seller
Tennyson Williams, Books and Fine Art
Biblio member since 2004
Williamsburg, Virginia
About Tennyson Williams, Books and Fine Art
Our office, located in historic Williamsburg, Virginia, is open by appointment or by chance. We are antiquarian booksellers who buy and sell carefully selected books for collectors and researchers in many genre. We also sell important autographs and photographs as well as original art, including wood engravings by Winslow Homer and J. J. Lankes; lithographs by Miró, Matisse, Calder, Wengenroth, and others; and works from the American Etching Revival. You can reach us by telephone: (757)378-5400; or by email: twbooks1@cox.net.
Glossary
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- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
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