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Escape With Me!: An Oriental Sketch-book
by Osbert Sitwell
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Inverness, Highland, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Escape With Me!: An Oriental Sketch-book by Osbert Sitwell.
Hardback, 1939, first edition, with black and white illustrations, published by MacMillan & Co. Ltd, London, 340 pages.
Octavo/8vo (6" x 9") with green cloth boards and spine and patterned green and white dust jacket. Dust jacket is worn, with tears and chips as well as marking, foxing and scuffing. Boards are a bit marked but have largely retained their colour. Signs of shelf-wear. Binding reasonably firm though a bit strained at rear inner hinge. Browning and some foxing to page edges but generally clean. Pictorial endpapers, a bit marked. Several pages to rear a bit foxed, one a bit creased. Page surfaces quite clean, the odd bit of marking or foxing here and there but no marginalia, underlining, etc. See pictures for further information.
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- Bookseller
- GN Books and Prints
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- #BIBLIO-190
- Title
- Escape With Me!: An Oriental Sketch-book
- Author
- Osbert Sitwell
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Macmillan & Co., Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1939
- Pages
- 340
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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Inverness, Highland
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Seller based in the Scottish Highlands, dealing in a variety of books, including antiquarian, vintage and modern.
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- First Edition
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- Jacket
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- Cloth
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- Spine
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- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Marginalia
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