The Echoing Grove
by LEHMANN, Rosamond; WILKINSON, Gerald (jacket design)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Collins, 1953. Hardback. Very Good. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. Original pink cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Bottom edge untrimmed. Slight lean to spine, pushing to spine ends, light wear to extremities, edges toned. Faint offsetting to endpapers, else, clean and tight. In Gerald Wilkinson's charming original dust jacket: spine and rear panel toned with marks, rubbed at joints and edges, a little creased, chipping to spine ends. Very good/ very good A nice copy of Lehmann's sixth novel.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quair Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2394
- Title
- The Echoing Grove
- Author
- LEHMANN, Rosamond; WILKINSON, Gerald (jacket design)
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Collins
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1953
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Firsts;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Quair Books
Biblio member since 2019
Leeds, West Yorkshire
About Quair Books
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- 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...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- First Edition
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- Cloth
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