The First Lady Chatterley
by LAWRENCE, D.H
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Galena, Illinois, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Shakespeare House, 1951. Hardcover. 16mo. Quarter dark blue cloth with gilt spine lettering and light blue paper over boards with giltstamped Shakespeare portrait, dust jacket. 220pp, (4pp). Top edge gilt. Sewn-in purple silk page marker. Near fine/very good. Faint jacket edgewear. First of this edition. Tight, handsome copy of this cute diminutive edition of the first draft of "Lady Chatterley's Lover."
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Details
- Bookseller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 38160
- Title
- The First Lady Chatterley
- Author
- LAWRENCE, D.H
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Shakespeare House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1951
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books; British Literature;
Terms of Sale
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts accepts most major credit cards and PayPal. Checks are welcome. Institutions will be accommodated as their procedures require. Every effort has been made to describe each book and any defects accurately. If an item proves unsatisfactory for any reason, it may be returned within seven days. We would appreciate a courtesy call if an item is being returned. Member ABAA, ILAB, MWABA, The Manuscript Society.
About the Seller
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
Biblio member since 2005
Galena, Illinois
About Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts has been serving book lovers, collectors and institutions since 1991. Our inventory of quality out-of-print books spans 50 subjects, while the extensive autograph holdings have a decidedly historical bent, reflecting personages from every field of human endeavor.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...