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The Four Gardens
by [Emily] Handasyde [Buchanan]
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good Indeed/Very Good
- Seller
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BATH, Somerset, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Foulis and Co, 1924. Cloth. Very Good Indeed/Very Good. 8" by 6". None. An illustrated collection of short stories about gardens. Comprising of 'The Haunted Garden', 'The Old-Fashioned Garden', 'The Poor Man's Garden' and 'The Rich Man's Garden'. By Emily Handasyde Bunchanan, who also wrote 'For the Weekend'. In scarce original dustwrapper, price clipped. Illustrated, with four plates. In original pictorial boards and held in original dustwrapper. Externally, smart. A few handling marks to boards. Light offsetting to endpapers. Dustwrapper is slightly sunned with minor chips to extremities and to the head and tail of spine. Wrap is preserved in brodart. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright with the odd spot throughout. Very Good Indeed
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Details
- Bookseller
- Rooke Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- MOD7-C-5
- Title
- The Four Gardens
- Author
- [Emily] Handasyde [Buchanan]
- Illustrator
- None
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Indeed
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Foulis and Co
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1924
- Size
- 8" by 6"
- Keywords
- gardens the haunted garden old fashioned garden rich mans the haunted garden
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Rooke Books
Biblio member since 2007
BATH, Somerset
About Rooke Books
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We are a small team dedicated to bringing you very scarce books at reasonable prices. We specialise in rare and hard to come by works on all subjects over the last 500 years, together with modern first editions and decorative sets and bindings. Our library has something for every interest and specialism. We deliver worldwide using a fully tracked and insured courier delivery service.
Where are We?
Based in the literary city of Bath, our offices are housed in the Eastern Dispensary. Built in 1845, the building originally existed as a charitable institution providing medical care. The building now houses our collection of over twenty thousand books and has five full time members of staff.
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- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- 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....
- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Poor
- A book with significant wear and faults. A poor condition book is still a reading copy with the full text still readable. Any...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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