THE HAND OF GLORY AND FURTHER GRANDFATHER’S TALES AND LEGENDS OF HIGHWAYMEN AND OTHERS.
by Collected by the late BLAKEBOROUGH, R. Edited by J. Fairfax-Blakeborough. Illustrated by Wyndham Payne
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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About This Item
London: Grant Richards Limited, 1924. . First edition, 8vo., pp.268, pictorial grey cloth stamped in black lettering, b/w vignette illustrations; a very good copy, in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is chipped and worn to extremities, with apx. 2x2cm loss to headband, and horizontal tear to title lettering, small chips to spine - now in a protective cover.
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Details
- Bookseller
- MINSTER GATE BOOKSHOP (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 35816
- Title
- THE HAND OF GLORY AND FURTHER GRANDFATHER’S TALES AND LEGENDS OF HIGHWAYMEN AND OTHERS.
- Author
- Collected by the late BLAKEBOROUGH, R. Edited by J. Fairfax-Blakeborough. Illustrated by Wyndham Payne
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London: Grant Richards Limited, 1924.
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- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- Cloth
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- Headband
- A strip of colored material attached to the text block at the top of the spine of a hard cover book. The same treatment applied...
- 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....
- First Edition
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