FLIGHT FROM A LADY.
by MACDONELL, A.G. (Archibald Gordon), 1895-1941 :
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London : Macmillan & Co., 1939. First edition : in a dust-jacket over-printed with Macmillan's Overseas Library information and restrictions on lower flap. An epistolary novel in which the hero flies round the world to escape the "cold blue eyes" of the lady. Crown 8vo. viii,(308),[ii],[2]pp. Original blue cloth, lettered in gilt and ruled in gilt and blind; a few slight marks; endpapers and edges a little tanned; a very good copy in the original Bip Pares dust-jacket - cream, lettered in red and decorated in sky-blue - price-clipped, lightly worn, very slightly chipped and a little tanned. Small bookseller's label of Angus & Robertson of Sydney on front paste-down.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ash Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 27880
- Title
- FLIGHT FROM A LADY.
- Author
- MACDONELL, A.G. (Archibald Gordon), 1895-1941 :
- Illustrator
- Bip Pares
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London : Macmillan & Co., 1939.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Scottish Literature, Fiction
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Ash Rare Books
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London
About Ash Rare Books
Ash Rare Books. Founded in 1946 and long one of London's more interesting small book businesses. Owned and run by Laurence Worms, former President of the ABA.
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- First Edition
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- Gilt
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- Cloth
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