DESERT ISLANDS AND ROBINSON CRUSOE. With Decorations by Rex Whistler
by De La Mare, Walter
- Used
- very good
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Roosevelt, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
London / New York: Faber and Faber / Fountain Press, 1930. First Edition. Original Cloth. Very Good. pp: (iv), 285, (1); pictorial half-title, two tailpieces and headpiece with tissue guards. Tipped at the back is a picture of the author from a magazine, with some offsetting onto blank leaves. Bound in green cloth, gilt-stamped spine and upper board; top edges gilt, others rough-trimmed. Prior owner's small name slip on front pastedown. 10.5" x 6.5" This is #482 of 650 numbered copies printed at the Westminster Press in February, 1930, and signed by the author.
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- Bookseller
- R & A Petrilla
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 038766
- Title
- DESERT ISLANDS AND ROBINSON CRUSOE. With Decorations by Rex Whistler
- Author
- De La Mare, Walter
- Format/Binding
- Original Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber / Fountain Press
- Place of Publication
- London / New York
- Date Published
- 1930
- Keywords
- english literature; adventure fiction; robinson crusoe; island shipwreck; press books; limited editions
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
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About the Seller
R & A Petrilla
Biblio member since 2004
Roosevelt, New Jersey
About R & A Petrilla
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