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Gate to the Sea: A novel
by BRYHER; LYONS, Islay de Courcy (DJ design and photographs)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+
- Seller
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Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Collins, 1959. Cloth. Good+. FIRST EDITION. 8vo + b/w photographic plates of Paestum. Original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Edges tobacco-toned. Scatter of spots and faint bands of off-setting to endpapers, David Graham's monochrome book label to front pastedown, else, clean and tight. In the original monochrome dust jacket, designed by Islay de Courcy Lyons: price-clipped, creasing and edgewear, head of spine frayed. Still, a neat copy of Bryher's only historical novel to feature illustrations and a female protagonist. Very good/ good+ With a printed dedication, "To Kenneth & Islay". Algernon Islay de Courcy Lyons (1922-1993) was a Welsh photographer, who was Kenneth Macpherson's partner. They lived together on Capri at Villa Tuoro, caring for Norman Douglas in his final years.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quair Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2482
- Title
- Gate to the Sea: A novel
- Author
- BRYHER; LYONS, Islay de Courcy (DJ design and photographs)
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Collins
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1959
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Firsts;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Quair Books
Biblio member since 2019
Leeds, West Yorkshire
About Quair Books
Based in West Yorkshire, Quair Books specialises in modern literary and visual cultures, particularly alternative, different and radical authors/ artists, presses and histories. We hold a small general stock, with a focus on unusual, interesting and beautiful books, as well as significant books in the history of ideas. Find us online at: quairbooks.co.uk; email us on: quairbooks@gmail.com and Twitter: @quairbooks.
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- Spine
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- Cloth
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- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- First Edition
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
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