The Days I Knew
by LANGTRY, LILLIE (DE BATHE, LADY) & LE GALLIENNE, RICHARD (Fore)
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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About This Item
Hutchinson & Co N/D (1925). FIRST EDITION, super octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 319pp, illus, VG (moderate bruising to extrems, light to moderate chafing & soiling to spine & boards, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, light tanning & foxing to eps with prev. owner's name in ink also, prev. bookseller's sm label to rear pastedown, light to moderate tanning & foxing to pages throughout, some plates loose)
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- Title
- The Days I Knew
- Author
- LANGTRY, LILLIE (DE BATHE, LADY) & LE GALLIENNE, RICHARD (Fore)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Hutchinson & Co N/D (1925)
- Keywords
- history Lillie Langtry Lady de Bathe first editions autobiography memoir aristocracy English
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- VG
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- Gilt
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- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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