CURIOUS HAPPENINGS TO THE ROOKE LEGATEES
by OPPENHEIM, E. Phillips:
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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York, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company. 1938. First US edition, first printing. First US edition, first printing. Original yellow cloth with blue lettering to spine and front panel, in the dustwrapper designed by Bip Pares. A very good copy, the binding square and firm, the contents clean throughout. Upper page block edge coloured blue, fore- and lower edges untrimmed and a little foxed. Light offsetting to the front free endpaper. Light stains to the spine and softening to tips. In the lightly soiled and darkened original dustwrapper, rubbed to spine tips, folds and extremities, with a 1.5 cm closed tear to the lower edge of the rear panel.Correctly priced $2.00 to the front flap. Ten epsodes recounting the adventures of the five legatees of Desmond Rooke, each of whom inherits sixty-four thousand seven hundred pounds. (Hubin). Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lucius Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 21286
- Title
- CURIOUS HAPPENINGS TO THE ROOKE LEGATEES
- Author
- OPPENHEIM, E. Phillips:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First US edition, first printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Boston: Little, Brown, and Company. 1938
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York, North Yorkshire
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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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...