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EDINBURGH, Picturesque Notes.
by STEVENSON, Robert Louis and Alvin Langdon Coburn.:
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, Rupert Hart-Davis, printed by the Chiswick Press, 1954.. FIRST EDITION OF THIS PRINTING 1954. With 23 photographs by Alvin Langdon Coburn and a preface by Janet Adam Smith. Approximately 250 x 180 mm, 10 x 7 inches, 107 pages, original publisher's white boards with silver lettering to spine, blue ink inscription to first blank endpaper. Crease to head of spine, lower corners bumped, dustwrapper with mounted photograph worn at lower edge and slighjty spotted, not price clipped with ink number underneath price. A good clean copy in dustwrapper. Issued in 2 different bindings: wine cloth with gilt lettering and white boards with silver lettering. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.
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- Bookseller
- Roger Middleton
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 47062
- Title
- EDINBURGH, Picturesque Notes.
- Author
- STEVENSON, Robert Louis and Alvin Langdon Coburn.:
- Format/Binding
- Original publisher's binding
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- London, Rupert Hart-Davis, printed by the Chiswick Press, 1954.
- Date Published
- 1954
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Alvin Langdon Coburn photography photographs scotland Edinburgh
Terms of Sale
Roger Middleton
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About the Seller
Roger Middleton
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Oxford, Oxfordshire
About Roger Middleton
We are a postal business only, selling rare and antiquarian books on interesting subjects.
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